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Using a computer outdoors can be tricky. The screens aren’t really built to be visible in direct sunlight, making it hard to see anything on the display. This is especially a problem for embedded computers with LCD screens deployed in outdoor locations.  Computers meant to be deployed in outdoor scenarios need a different feature set […]

In desktop computers, picking the PC enclosure material is mostly an aesthetic choice. With industrial PCs though, this factor has to be considered carefully. There is no one perfect material that does well in every scenario – different situations call for different types of PC enclosures. Here is an overview of the pros and cons […]

There has been a movement toward Solid State Drives (SSD) in the last few years. The reasons are obvious – an SSD operates much faster than a traditional hard drive and isn’t susceptible to mechanical faults. And while they used to sport very little storage capacity and were prohibitively expensive in the early days of […]

The semiconductor industry has been reeling for quite a while now. In the beginning, it was Covid, shutting down manufacturing and shipping lines across the globe. Then came the drought in Taiwan, home to TSMC, the biggest supplier of computer chips in the world. After more than two years of chip shortages and worsening product […]

ECC memory or Error-Correcting Code memory has been a buzzword in the enterprise space for years. Experts recommend this memory type for most industrial and commercial applications, and many business owners just go with the flow. But what exactly is different about ECC memory? When is it actually needed? And are there any disadvantages to […]

Processor technology constantly evolves. New generations of chips continuously supersede their predecessors and the market dominance keeps shifting between AMD and Intel. Yet one thing remains mostly the same – the type of CPU socket. Sure, the technical specifications of the sockets are iterated upon, but the type of socket technology used in the lineup […]

The pandemic might finally be winding down, global supply chains are yet to fully recover. The situation is especially bad in the semiconductor industry, holding up deliveries of a variety of electronic gadgets and appliances, including embedded PCs. Why is there still a shortage of chips? How long will this situation last? What can the […]

Data storage for commercial applications is not a simple matter. Servers may see thousands of access requests come in for the same file at the same time; serving each client one at a time would slow down the process considerably. Then there is the question of drive failures, which unfortunately occur rather frequently for a […]