Extraordinary AI performance from -40 to +85 °C for rugged applications

Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Computer-on-Modules from congatec are hardened for harsh environments within the industrial temperature range

congatec is expanding its portfolio of Computer-on-Modules (COMs) with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors to include variants for the extended industrial temperature range of -40 °C to +85 °C. With up to 180 TOPS of energy-efficient embedded computing performance, this high-performance module family is now also available for use in particularly demanding environments in AI-intensive markets including industrial automation, robotics, medical, and retail point-of-sales.

Industry-leading COMs for extended requirements
With the support for the industrial temperature range, the COMs – offered as application-ready aReady.COMs – can be deployed in environments characterized by extreme temperature fluctuations, weather exposure, vibrations, or continuously demanding operating conditions. For extended ruggedness congatec offers aReady.YOURS customization services for value-adds including conformal coating,special component selection or burn-in tests. Like the conventional variants, the rugged derivatives also offer up to 16 CPU cores with up to 10 TOPS and an integrated NPU5 for low-power AI inference with up to 50 TOPS. Additionally, they feature up to 4 Xe3 cores for optimized GPGPU AI performance. Developers thus receive a scalable platform for high-performance embedded and edge systems that combines local AI processing, sensor fusion, automation functions, and safety-critical workloads directly at the point of deployment with a high degree of ruggedness and energy efficiency.
The modules therefore address applications that must be designed to be particularly reliable, rugged, and available over the long term. Key applications include mission computers for autonomous or heavy-duty vehicles, along with outdoor edge systems for smart cities, energy and renewable sectors, wayside infrastructure, and railway applications.