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GIGABYTE Improves Performance of EL-20 Series IoT Gateways

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GIGABYTE Technology, a leading creator of high performance products for IT professionals and an associate member of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, is pleased to announce that its current line-up of EL-20 series IoT Gateway solutions will phase in new Intel Pentium and Celeron processors based on the Braswell D stepping.

The new Intel Pentium N3710 and Intel Celeron N3060 will be phased in to deliver higher performance on both compute tasks and graphics, while maintaining their current thermal and power envelopes, thanks to improvements of Intel's 14 nm process. The new D-stepping Braswell processors now fall under the Intel Embedded Options, delivering longer availability lifetime for those seeking to invest in a long-term platform.



The GIGABYTE IoT advantage
GIGABYTE offers unique performance in its latest generation of IoT Gateway Solutions. All GIGABYTE EL-20 series models offer extended memory ranges allowing IoT implementers to use an unprecedented 16GB of memory in their gateways, upgradable through 2 on board SODIMM slots for DDR3L-1333 or DDR3L-1600. This allows special usage scenarios for digital signage or other autonomous systems have more flexibility at a lower cost, compared to other Pentium or Celeron based solutions.

EL-20-3700-32GB
The new Intel Pentium N3710 will increase CPU performance by offering a burst frequency up to 2.56 GHz, with a base frequency of 1.6 GHz. This increases performance by roughly 7% whilst staying in the SDP (Scenario Design Power) envelope of just 4 Watt. This also allows the EL20-3700-32GB to stay passively cooled while staying at roughly one inch height.

EL-20-3050-32GB & EL-20-3050-8GB
The Celeron powered EL-20-3050 models see huge performance increases with 15% higher burst speeds, up to 2.48 GHz. This delivers real-world performance improvements over 17%, based on the Geekbench 32-bit Multi Benchmark. This makes the new EL-20-3050 a great value proposition as entry-level IoT Gateway. The EL-20-3050 also support up to 16GB of DDR3L.

EL-20 Series IoT Gatways
The EL-20 products embed these new processors on a high durability motherboard based on the Ultra-compact Form Factor, installed in a fanless, industrial grade aluminium case. With a total size of only 141x108x27 millimeters, the EL-20 feature a large choice of ports and connectivity for its size making it a highly flexible IoT Gateway solution that will excel at its core purpose: bridging the data output of legacy edge systems with cloud-based analytics infrastructures, or signage based services through its 2xHDMI and 1xeDP port.

EL-20 Series Features
  • 2xSO-DIMM slots, up to 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3L memory
  • Dual GbE LAN ports
  • Dual band Intel WiFi 802.11b/g/n/ac & Bluetooth 4.0 module
  • 1xFull-size Mini-PCIe for 3G module or mSATA storage and 1xSD-Card
  • 2xHDMI and 1x eDP on-board
  • 4xUSB 3.0 ports
  • Supports Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 and Android 5.1
EL-20-3700-32GB
  • Intel Pentium N3710 (4 cores, 4 threads, 1.6 - 2.56 GHz)
  • 32GB onboard eMMC memory
EL-20-3050-32GB
  • Intel Celeron N3060 (2 cores, 2 threads, 1.6 - 2.48 GHz)
  • 32GB onboard eMMC memory
EL-20-3050-8GB
  • Intel Celeron N3060 (2 cores, 2 threads, 1.6 - 2.48 GHz)
  • 8GB onboard eMMC memory

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LOL I was reading the title to fast...
EL-20 Series IoT Giveaway :D:p
 

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I'm wondering whattaheck does this thing have to do with IoT? Besides WiFi and Ethernet not a single "IoT Gateway system" from Gigabyte includes any kind of rudimentary I/O to connect to "Things". Not even a simple RS-232?
Or spending extra $5-6 on wireless connectivity for each and every electronic project has become a norm nowadays (just like controlling 1 relay/LED with a friggin' supercomputer Cortex M4F MCU, or a dedicated RaspberryPi)
 

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I'm wondering whattaheck does this thing have to do with IoT? Besides WiFi and Ethernet not a single "IoT Gateway system" from Gigabyte includes any kind of rudimentary I/O to connect to "Things". Not even a simple RS-232?
Or spending extra $5-6 on wireless connectivity for each and every electronic project has become a norm nowadays (just like controlling 1 relay/LED with a friggin' supercomputer Cortex M4F MCU, or a dedicated RaspberryPi)

IoT is all wireless and mostly WiFi, obviously. I have no idea if they really need all that memory. And yes, everything everywhere will soon have WiFi. Ev.Ery.Thing.
 

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IoT is all wireless and mostly WiFi, obviously. I have no idea if they really need all that memory. And yes, everything everywhere will soon have WiFi. Ev.Ery.Thing.
That's used to be called a "connected device". This IoT paradigm makes me confused, as there is not a single comprehensive definition of what it is. :wtf:
Just 2-3 years ago people from Atmel were trying to differentiate between the two (by writing lengthy articles, philosophical in nature), but apparently even they gave up. :fear::fear::fear:
 

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That's used to be called a "connected device". This IoT paradigm makes me confused, as there is not a single comprehensive definition of what it is. :wtf:
Just 2-3 years ago people from Atmel were trying to differentiate between the two (by writing lengthy articles, philosophical in nature), but apparently even they gave up. :fear::fear::fear:

It's like "the cloud" I assume. Old concept, but the big difference is the mass of it, and some new ways of doing things and new ways of looking at things (and some of it is definitely psychological/philosophical in nature). In some ways buzzwords are pretty good for things actually. I work, a bit, with collection/analysis of power meter data. It's essentially about hooking up power meters to logging devices which communicates with each other and in the end the Internet, and it allows industries and the like to have total control of power consumption. The concept is old, but it's shocking how uninterested people are in it, because it saves A LOT of money. We routinely save thousands of € each year for small industries by just go through their power consumption and the size of the breakers. But anyway, the basic concept is simply data avaliable on the Internet, and the company I work with have done it for more than a decade. The interest is picking up though, but now similar services are marketed as IoT. And the concept allows for even greater centralized control actually, because suddenly it's interesting for everyone to look at new applications.
 

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I'm wondering whattaheck does this thing have to do with IoT? Besides WiFi and Ethernet not a single "IoT Gateway system" from Gigabyte includes any kind of rudimentary I/O to connect to "Things". Not even a simple RS-232?
Or spending extra $5-6 on wireless connectivity for each and every electronic project has become a norm nowadays (just like controlling 1 relay/LED with a friggin' supercomputer Cortex M4F MCU, or a dedicated RaspberryPi)

Actually, the specs also include serial port and GPIO connectors on-board, But as this is the Bear Ridge reference design made for Intel, they didn't list legacy connections as a requirement and modern day USB/DB9 adapters are commonplace.

Performance wise you'd be looking at controlling an entire floor/building with the EL-20, not one relay.
 

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Actually, the specs also include serial port and GPIO connectors on-board, But as this is the Bear Ridge reference design made for Intel, they didn't list legacy connections as a requirement and modern day USB/DB9 adapters are commonplace.
Thx. Just checked the spec on Gigabyte website and it does have RS-232 mini-port, and includes internal headers for i2c, SPI, 8-bit GPIO, and 2 more RS232 headers.
Now I'm happy.
 
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