Feb 13, 2015 | Engineering
Just recently I had a client asking us why we added 4 PCI slots to our new line of Q87 motherboards. Interesting question, as Intel and the commercial world very quickly adopted the PCI-Express as the de-facto standard for their products. The PCI Express is definitely...
Oct 31, 2014 | Engineering
So what exactly is GPIO? Well the real question is what isn’t it? Most of us pay little or no attention to this much neglected function not knowing all it can do for you. A computer usually interacts with the outside world by means of the keyboard, mouse and...
Sep 18, 2014 | Engineering
Since the inception of the 8-14 inch plates known as hard disk drives in 1956, potential density of storage on this classical and familiar media has been increasing exponentially. Our friends at Western Digital and HGST are currently shipping their latest “monster...
Jun 9, 2014 | Engineering
Have you noticed it’s becoming increasingly difficult to figure out which is the right processor to use for a specific application? Today you have to choose between desktop or mobile CPUs, PGA, LGA or BGA mounting, second or third generation, and so on. You can look...
Dec 17, 2013 | Engineering
2013 was a remarkable year for technology and science. Here is our top 10 list of things that stood out this year: • Graphene was found to be the strongest material in the world. *1 • A NASA rover found evidence for water on Mars. *2 • Cisco began counting “The...
May 16, 2013 | Engineering
We usually have the tendency on focusing on big events, big objects and big accomplishments, but sometimes these big accomplishments can be made by extremely small (100 million times) events. I just watched a movie created by IBM called “A Boy and his Atom”. It is...
Dec 29, 2012 | Engineering
Today’s fast life demands the multitasking trend, therefore industrial computer motherboards are continuously proving important for fast growing companies that needs to mange a lot of information. Several problems such as wasting time on slow computers unable to...
Dec 22, 2012 | Engineering
Reshaping the computer landscape, Rackmount computer products began to appear in the mid 1970’s. These systems are powered by the 8 bit microprocessor revolution which has completely reshaped the computer landscape. Comprising of keyboards, monitors, speakers,...
Dec 15, 2012 | Engineering
The demands of computers in industry are a lot higher than the demands of a conventional desktop PC. There is extreme and variable need of Industrial computers. These Industrial computer offer complete flexibility that the normal PC fails to give. They offer...
Dec 8, 2012 | Engineering
Today, there’s a growing trend of expanding business opportunities through a new phenomenon called Integrated Embedded System. This is actually a procedure to discover new business prospects from past products for futuristic approach. Integrated Embedded systems...