Green House Japan unveiled a new line of industrial SDHC cards that are designed to endure operating temperatures as high as 70°C, and as low as 0°C, which makes them fit to serve as removable storage media in IPCs and outdoor static cameras. The cards further pack ECC logic to prevent data corruption. The cards make use of SLC NAND flash, and come in capacities of 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB. The 256 and 512 MB models provide transfer rates as high as 19 MB/s reads with 7 MB/s writes, while the other models provide speeds as high as 20 MB/s reads with 13 MB/s writes. Green House left pricing to the open markets.

J&W introduced a new fanless nettop and IPC, the M001. Driven by Intel "Cedar Trail" Atom D2550 or N2800 or N2600 processors, the M001 packs a nano-ITX system board. It has one vacant DDR3 SO-DIMM slot, supporting up to 4 GB of memory. For storage, there is one 2.5-inch SATA 3 Gb/s drive bay. Connectivity include 802.11 b/g/n, gigabit Ethernet, three USB 2.0 ports, SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/MMC card reader, HDMI and VGA display outputs, and RS232 serial (COM). The ridged metal body doubles up as a heatsink. Minus the antenna and stand, the system measures just 135 x 128 x 45 mm. Pricing and availability information is awaited.

Team Group Inc., a major NAND flash manufacturer in the world, presents the brand new iCF, SD industrial NAND flash cards, which feature not only highly efficient transmission speed, but also the complete compatibility with IPC and other embedded platform, also support multiple transmission modes and functions. In addition to unprecedented ultra high reading and writing speed, they provide guaranteed high durability and reliability for application programs crucial for IPC, medical equipment, military equipment, point of sales (POS) systems and game consoles.

Team Group understands the cries for industrial level memory cards in the demanding storage market, and in response comes up with the high performance and high volume industrial memory cards that meet wide temperature requirements. They read and write at 45/40MBpersec, and support for ECC dynamic and static wear leveling. The features of vibration resistance and low energy consumption provide excellent performance, compatibility and reliability for hand-held barcode scanners, POS terminals, wireless communication devices, embedded systems, medical computers, set-top boxes, monitoring system and hand-held GPS and other application devices requiring frequent data access.

Nearly a week after unveiling its first industrial-PC (IPC) motherboards, ASRock says it is vying for ODM orders from IPC makers. When well-marketed, IPC motherboards could substantially contribute to the company's revenue, since IPC motherboards have gross margins of at least 25%, higher than that of consumer PC motherboards.

ASRock targets motherboards for use in POS (point of sale) PCs, thin clients, kiosks, panel PCs, gaming PCs, signage and devices used in surveillance, information display and retail & hospitality, the company said. So far, the company scored orders from two ODMs, with shipments set to begin in Q2, 2012. ASRock aims to obtain ODM orders from IPC vendors such as Advantech, Adlink Technology and ICP Electronics, instead of competing with them for orders for system products, ASRock said. ASRock hopes that its IPC motherboard venture will benefit it starting 2013.