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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 […]

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 […]

The arrival of Solid State Drives (SSDs) turned hard disks from noisy, bulky devices to sleek and silent attachments for the modern computer. Boasting a much faster read-write speed than an old-school hard drive, SSDs became the de-facto memory device for running performance-sensitive applications. But even though memory drives have evolved, the technology used to […]

When it comes to embedded computers, updating to a new version of Windows is no simple matter. There are a large number of interconnected components in an industrial application, and even the smallest change can throw a spanner in the works. This is why the question of whether or not you should upgrade your embedded […]