Alder Lake N processors in striped-down mini industrial PC

Aaeon is aiming at industrial automation and digital signage with tiny stripped-down PCs built around Intel’s ‘Processor N-series’ (Alder Lake N) CPUs.

Measuring 92 x 64 x 45.2mm ‘Up 7000 Edge’ PCs can be ordered with N200, N97, N100, or N50 processors. The first two get 8Gbyte of LPDDR5 memory and 64Gbyte of eMMC storage, the version with an N50 CPU (which is dual core, the others are quad) comes with half of both memories, and there are two N100 options: one with full memory and one with half.

Graphics are 12th generation processor Intel UHD.

IO is reduced to the essentials: The display output is HDMI 1.4b (via Realtek RTL8111H CG), and this is joined by three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and one RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet, port. Beyond this, apart from a power button, there is no other IO.

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 is supported, as is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Linux kernel 5.15 and Yocto 4.0.

TPM 2.0 is included on-board for data security – this is means that there is a ‘trusted platform module’ crypto-processor.

The PCs are fan-less, but air movement is expected: operation is over 0 – 55°C with 0.5m/s flow.

Power is required at 12Vdc 5A (30 – 36Wtyp) through a barrel jack – a power supply is an option, as is a VESA mount.