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G2E – Advantech-Innocore ready to showcase Gaming Intelligence
By Phil - 25 September 2015
Three new gaming platform products plus mini-ITX, COM Express, industrial touch monitors, flash storage and graphics cards will mark out Advantech-Innocore’s G2E 2015.
As the gaming-focused business unit of the $1bn Advantech Group, Advantech-Innocore stands alone among hardware suppliers. With its own manufacturing plants, global logistics and service centers as well as a leading edge product roadmap, Advantech-Innocore is able to meet the most demanding requirements of our customers in the gaming industry. The company has an extensive portfolio of standard hardware products based on both Intel and AMD chipsets and offers supporting software products and utilities. The expert design team also delivers some of the most sophisticated custom designs for gaming industry OEMs who require a gaming platform designed to their exact specifications.
Gaming Intelligence
At the upcoming G2E tradeshow (Advantech Booth number 1823), the company’s theme is “Gaming Intelligence”.
“This theme aptly encompasses our products, our knowledge of the industry and our added value hardware and software solutions” commented Craig Stapleton Advantech’s product director. “Our standard products provide customers with the latest technology in the form of gaming specific hardware platforms for the intelligent heart of today’s sophisticated slot machines. Our expert team has over 15 years’ experience in the industry and can help customers with the design in process. Our range of software solutions add further intelligence with functions such as media validation, SAS networking, security and diagnostics. Finally for customers requiring custom-designed products we can add intelligence in the form of custom FPGA and additional micro-controllers with custom firmware for sophisticated security, control and supervisory functions.”
Advantech-Innocore will be showing a full range of industrial computing platforms for gaming machines – the field proven DPX Series, as well as a selection of products from Advantech’s other product divisions. Products on display will include platforms featuring the latest AMD, and Intel chipsets, and other embedded computing products. Industrial motherboards and modules in a variety of formats will be on display including Mini-ITX, Q7, COM Express and MicroATX.
Advantech’s growing line of industrial LCD monitor products from ADS (Advantech Display Systems) will also be shown. With screen sizes available from 7 inches up to 55 inches and beyond, the ADS range includes the latest technology products for high visibility, touch screen, sunlight view ability and ruggedization.
No less than three new DPX gaming products will be on show for the first time in Las Vegas. The exciting new DPX-E135 and DPX-E250 in the E Series range, the DPX-S440 in the S Series range.
The DPX-E135 is a completely integrated system for gaming applications. Based on the 3rd generation of AMD’s G Series embedded platform, the DPX-E135 provides a complete PC platform with passive cooling. The system uses AMD’s latest high performance dual and quad core SOC devices with “Discrete-level Graphics” from the integrated HD8000 series graphics core. A full feature set of I/O and COMs designed specifically for gaming devices is also included making the DPX-E135 an ideal integrated platform for many gaming, amusement and kiosk applications.
The DPX-S440 is another new motherboard for the gaming industry. It features the very latest AMD top end R series embedded platform. The DPX-S440 is the latest in the very successful DPX-S range of products which give customers field-proven reliable platforms with the peace of mind of massive scalability and future upgradeability.
The third new product on show at G2E is the DPX-E250 a Xeon capable motherboard for the gaming and lottery industry. It features the very latest 4th Generation Intel® Core architecture CPUs up to and including Intel Xeon CPUs. Best in class CPU performance – the DPX-E250 supports a huge range of price and performance from dual core Celeron, through Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 and up to Xeon CPUs. The latest Intel embedded platform ensures customers a long lived (guaranteed 5 years in production), and future proof platform ready for whatever performance needs come along.
