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ADVANTECH AND INTEL SIGN A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING PROMISING TO DEVELOP, VALIDATE & DEPLOY EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Advantech Co., Ltd. and Intel Corporation today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the development, validation and deployment of Advantech’s embedded ePlatform solutions. These solutions will be based on the Intel Architecture embedded technology and platform building blocks, and specifically embedded to the latest Intel CoreTM 2 Duo processors. Jointly addressing a ceremony to mark the MoU, representatives of Advantech and Intel committed themselves to enable this cooperation in key area of Digital Security Surveillance, Factory Automation, Medical, POS and also Gaming, etc. Advantech already use Intel processors in its solutions. Intel provides support for all of Advantech’s major application development by providing monthly product roadmaps, bi-annual product strategy sharing sessions, technical support and co-operation in Marketing for project-based business. The MoU is an extension of the existing Advantech-Intel relationship and aims to help Advantech enhance all of its embedded IA platform designs. The MoU aims to drive product development in the areas of Digital Security Surveillance, Medical Automation and Gaming Solution segments for Advantech. Jeff Chen, CTO of Advantech, commented: “Advantech positions itself as the most trustworthy ePlatform services provider. In addition to the comprehensive product portfolio, Advantech Design To Order Services is to provide a diverse variety of customizations, helping to develop the customer’s innovations, and differentiating Advantech’s services from the competition. Advantech DTOS opens a broad customization scope for every need in the vertical market. This MoU now allows us to strategically grow the relationship to co-develop the key vertical markets and also foster complete vertical solutions to the market. Co-marketing between Advantech and Intel will be performed by worldwide Advantech DTOS Forum through 2006 and beyond. Besides, Advantech is committed to help users to leverage Intel advanced commercial computing technology and enable our partners to more easily and quickly apply Intel advanced computing technology in all their application fields.” “Intel has been a leader in embedded products for many years, and with the Intel Core 2 Duo chips, we significantly improved performance and density of the platform while maintaining the long life cycle support which is critical to embedded applications,” said Ton Steenman, General Manager of Intel Infrastructure Processor Division. “Performance and energy efficiency benefits of Intel Core 2 Dual processors offer significant advantages to Advantech platform solutions which in turn will be enjoyed by their customers.” Based on the revolutionary Intel Core microarchitecture, Intel dual-core processors expand the portfolio of high-performance, power efficient solutions with long life cycle support for embedded customers. The Intel Core 2 Duo processors can meet the demands of a wide range of performance-intensive, low-power embedded applications that require smaller form factors. The processors offer the design flexibility to create new solutions and to solve small form factor design challenges typical of embedded market segments.
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