Basic motherboards with 45nm Intel quad-core processor

Kontron has extended its family of basic motherboards with two high-performance variants based on the 45nm Intel Core 2 Quad processor: The Kontron KTG41/ATX ATX basic motherboard and the Kontron KTG41/ATXU Micro-ATX basic motherboard. The two Kontron ATX and Micro-ATX basic motherboards with Intel G41 Express chipset and LGA 775 socket for Intel processors up to the 45nm Intel Core2 Quad processor Q9650 offer advanced design qualities for rugged environments. Equipped with advanced interfaces, Kontron basic motherboards are cost-effective and are suitable for highvolume applications in the fields of gaming, digital signage, POS, check-in terminals, ticketing machines, hotel multimedia terminals or even industrial shop floor applications for quality control.

Intel Celeron M Processor Ultra Low Voltage CPU

The CPU is the Intel Celeron M Processor with Ultra Low Voltage. The CPU operates a fairly pedestrian 900MHz. The chip from Integrated Technology Express Inc. (ITE) is an embedded controller handling the keyboard and touch pad functions. The Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) handles the clock functions for the system.

Intel Processors

The Pentium Dual Core E2160 is an old friend of ours, as it keeps serving us very well in one of our test lab computers. We recently drove the 1.8 GHz processor all the way up to 3.2 GHz, at which it can actually compete with a Core 2 Duo at similar clock speeds - but a ridiculously low price. We also used this processor for our $500 Gaming Machine article, 2007 edition.

2000: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor

Users of Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based PCs can create professional-quality movies; deliver TV-like video via the Internet; communicate with real-time video and voice; render 3D graphics in real time; quickly encode music for MP3 players; and simultaneously run several multimedia applications while connected to the Internet. The processor debuted with 42 million transistors and circuit lines of 0.18 microns. Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004, ran at 108 kilohertz (108,000 hertz), compared to the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor's initial speed of 1.5 gigahertz (1.5 billion hertz). If automobile speed had increased similarly over the same period, you could now drive from San Francisco to New York in about 13 seconds.

1997: Intel® Pentium® II Processor

The 7.5 million-transistor Intel® Pentium II processor incorporates Intel® MMX™ technology, which is designed specifically to process video, audio and graphics data efficiently. It was introduced in innovative Single Edge Contact (S.E.C) Cartridge that also incorporated a high-speed cache memory chip. With this chip, PC users can capture, edit and share digital photos with friends and family via the Internet; edit and add text, music or between-scene transitions to home movies; and, with a video phone, send video over standard phone lines and the Internet.

Intel NG80386SX-25

25 MHz100-pin plastic QFPIntel 80386SX microprocessor was a cost-effective version of the 80386DX. The SX processor had 16-bit external data bus - this allowed the CPU to work with cheaper 16-bit hardware, but at the same time it made access to 32-bit memory data slower. The 80386SX also had 24-bit address bus, which limited CPU's physical memory to 16 MB. Because the processor didn't work with 32-bit buses like the 80386DX, it didn't require as many signal pins. The 80386SX processors were manufactured in 100-pin package, or 32 pins less than the number of pins on DX package.

Intel Skulltrail D5400XS

Intel started slowly leaking information about an ultra high-end enthusiast platform dubbed Skulltrail at right about the same time that AMD’s now defunct QuadFX platform was set to be released. Over time we learned that Skulltrail, like QuadFX, would be a dual-socket platform that could accommodate a pair of Intel’s fastest quad-core processors, for a grand total of eight execution cores in one desktop system. But other details regarding the platform were somewhat scarce to say the least.
As time progressed, however, Intel was more and more forthright with information regarding Skulltrail. Soon we learned that the platform would require DDR2 FB-DIMMs and that it would officially support a 1600MHz front side bus frequency. Then later Intel disclosed that Skulltrail would support not only ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology, but NVIDIA’s SLI as well. Then at IDF last year we were treated to our first glimpse of a fully assembled Skulltrail system that featured dual 3.2GHz quad-core processors and were even privy to some preliminary benchmark results. And finally, at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Intel showed off a couple of Skulltrail-based rigs complete with air and water-cooled processors running at a cool 4GHz. At this point we knew Skulltrail was almost ready for prime time.