RUBY-9716VGAR - Portwell Launches New Intel® Core™ 2 Duo ATX Industrial Motherboard
Greater computing power with lower power consumption
Industrial motherboard users are often faced with the choice between powerful computing power and the high cost of the energy it consumes. And while thermal coolers are effective, the weight and size of the cooler itself can become a weak link in the system. Portwell, Inc., a world-leading innovator in the Industrial PC (IPC) market and a member of the Intel® Communications Alliance, has developed a practical solution to this problem with its new RUBY-9716VGAR industrial motherboard.
The ATX form factor mainboard supports the energy-saving Intel® Core™ 2 Duo dual-core E6400 processor based on the latest Q965 Express chipset, which includes the Intel® Q965 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub and the Intel® I/O Controller Hub ICH8DO, and features a Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, dual-channel memory bandwidth as high as 12.8 GB, and dynamic video memory of 384 MB to enable enhanced gaming and video interaction. Available now, Portwell’s new RUBY-9716VGAR industrial ATX motherboard is the ideal solution for applications in the medical equipment, industrial automation, financial automation, process control, semiconductor equipment, and network security markets.
Lower power consumption saves money 24/7
"Downtime and running costs are important criteria when considering the equation between power and energy," says Thomas Lee, Portwell's product manager. "In the past, you had to sacrifice one to achieve the other. Today, we believe we have successfully solved that equation with Intel’s latest technologies. It not only provides greater computing power and increased bandwidth, but does so at a reduced power consumption that makes it the economical choice for 24/7 operation."
According to Thomas Lee, the new RUBY-9716VGAR industrial ATX motherboard provides enhanced video output. An on-board PCI Express x16 expansion slot supports the choice of an alternative graphics add-in card. Further expansion options include one PCI Express x1 slot, a PCI Express x4 slot, and four PCI slots to enrich the functionality of the customer’s platform.
Data protection and flexible storage devices support
"We didn't stop at reducing the power consumption," comments Thomas Lee, "but went on to include Intel® Matrix Storage Technology and five SATA connectors to ensure we protected valuable data efficiently in case of hard drive failure for systems configured as RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10. Not only that,"Thomas Lee adds,"we also kept the costs down by including an IDE device - for the inexpensive support of storage devices. "
Communications interfaces for Portwell's new RUBY-9716VGAR industrial ATX motherboard include: one GB Ethernet port for fast network connection; eight USB ports support for additional peripheral attachment; and serial, parallel, and GPIO support for low speed external device connection.
About Portwell
Portwell Inc, an Associate
Member of the Intel® Embedded and
Communications Alliance,
designs and manufactures Network and Security Appliance
along with a full range of IPC products (SBC, Backplane,
Redundant Power Supply, Rack Mount & Node Chassis), Embedded
Architecture Solution and DVR system platform. We provide
complete R&D and project management services to decrease
customers' time to market, reduce project risk and cost.
Portwell is also an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified company
which deploy quality assurance through product design,
verification and manufacturing cycle.
About the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance
The Intel® Embedded and
Communications Alliance is a community of communications and
embedded developers and solutions providers who share a
common vision on the convergence of computing technologies.
The member companies within the Alliance are committed to
the development of modular, standards based building blocks,
platforms, and solutions based on Intel®
technologies, processors, products, and services. The
availability of these standards-based modular building
blocks and solutions offer the market greater choice, faster
time to profit, and the opportunity to innovate using
modular building blocks from multiple levels of integration
- silicon, software, boards and complete systems.
About Portwell
Press Releases 
