Posted by – December 25, 2025
Kontron walks through how its embedded motherboard roadmap is shifting toward on-board AI acceleration, especially with Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake-U) platforms that include an integrated NPU (around 11 TOPS) for edge inference. The core message is practical: keep x86 form factors familiar for industrial OEMs, but move compute-heavy vision and signal-processing workloads away from CPU-only execution when latency and power-per-task start to matter. https://www.kontron.com/
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Posted by – December 25, 2025
Kontron walks through how its embedded motherboard roadmap is shifting toward on-board AI acceleration, especially with Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake-U) platforms that include an integrated NPU (around 11 TOPS) for edge inference. The core message is practical: keep x86 form factors familiar for industrial OEMs, but move compute-heavy vision and signal-processing workloads away from CPU-only execution when latency and power-per-task start to matter. https://www.kontron.com/
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A key demo point is the software path: Intel OpenVINO running on the chip’s integrated NPU, showing the “same model, different engine” comparison between CPU and NPU. That framing matters for embedded teams because it ties together model deployment, acceleration backends, and real-world UX: smoother real-time inference, fewer dropped frames, and more predictable thermals on compact systems like Mini-STX boards.
Beyond Meteor Lake, they position a broad catalog that scales from cost-focused Intel Celeron SoC designs up through newer “Lake” generations, plus AMD-based options such as Ryzen Embedded V10000 and R2000 families. In the same conversation, they also point to ARM-oriented work, including customer-specific carrier boards around Raspberry Pi/SoM-style modules, which is often the fastest route to tailor I/O, power domains, and mechanical constraints without rebuilding the whole compute stack.
Filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, the booth tour then jumps to the higher end of the lineup: industrial server motherboards with onboard 10GbE and a Kontron-developed BMC for remote management (KVM-style access, monitoring, lifecycle operations) without relying on extra third-party tooling. They also name-check Intel Xeon Scalable “Granite Rapids” as the kind of platform they’re targeting when embedded requirements start to look like edge-cloud density, but still need industrial longevity and controlled BOM strategy.
Finally, there’s a strong manufacturing and logistics angle: production in Europe, expanded with a second factory in Slovenia featuring multiple SMT lines and in-line inspection capabilities, plus work tied to 5G broadband programs. For North American customers, they emphasize local presence via a San Diego office and warehouse, aiming for quick sample turnaround and short lead times for off-the-shelf boards, which is often what makes an evaluation phase actually move.
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