Earlier this year Intel indicated that it was launching its new Jasper Lake platform very soon, built on a foundation of 10nm manufacturing with the latest Tremont Atom cores. While Jasper Lake is geared towards consumers and commercial use cases, Intel also has a similar line of processors built for the industrial and IoT markets, also using Tremont on 10nm, called Elkhart Lake. Onlogic, a business built around supplying the industrial and IoT markets, is introducing new fanless designs built around Elkhart Lake.

The four new fanless industrial designs from OnLogic are the Helix 310, Helix 330, Karbon 410, and Karbon 430 – all customizable passively cooled systems for ‘Industry 4.0’. The processors at the heart are all the variants of Elkhart Lake, with the Helix models focusing on dual core Celeron N6211 or quad-core Pentium J6425, while the Karbon models go for dual-core Atom x6211E and quad-core Atom x6425E, the main differentiation of these last two models being the wider thermal support from -40ºC to 70ºC.

OnLogic’s main selling point here is the coupling of its ModBay expansion technology, allowing customers additional connectivity through the M.2 and PCIe slots (effectively making the M.2 a simple PCIe x4 link), with Intel’s Programmable Services Engine, or PSE. Intel’s PSE is described by OnLogic as a dedicated offload engine for IoT built from an Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller, enabling real-time compute and data tracking. Combined with the compute power of Atom cores, the aim is to provide a complete real-time monitoring and communication system for a wide array of industrial deployments. OnLogic provides solution services enabling custom OS deployments, branding, imaging, fulfilment, and lifecycle support.

The Helix 310 and Helix 330 are built on the same platform but afford different levels of customization. Both models include support for 32 GB of DDR4, at least one M.2 slot, 3 USB 3.2 ports, 3 USB 2.0 ports, three DisplayPort outputs and two COM ports. Where they differ is that the Helix 310 is the base model, featuring 1-2 gigabit Ethernet ports and two M.2 slots with optional 4G/DIO/COM/CAN support, but the Helix 330 uses one of those M.2 slots for dual additional gigabit Ethernet by default.

The Karbon 410 and 430 are similarly on a singular platform together, build for a wider temperature window as well as MIL-STD-810H shock and vibration standards. The base platform has up to 32 GB of DDR4, support for M.2 and mSATA storage, dual gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.2 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, 1 Display Port, 1 CAN bus, 1 micro-SIM slot, dual M.2 slots, 1 mPCIe slot, and optional 4G/DIO/COM/PoE/TPM. The Karbon 410 is the base model, and the Karbon 430 adds in another pair of M.2 slots, a second micro-SIM slot, and allows for additional networking or USB.

In the last couple of years, when Intel had record demand for its silicon, the main market segments to lose out were the low-end compute market, namely Intel’s Atom portfolio. Now that Intel has sufficient capacity for its demand, along with increased production of its 10nm manufacturing node, it is refocusing its efforts in this embedded compute market with product lines such as Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake. This also means that OEMs like OnLogic can redesign their portfolio using the latest updates, such as PSE, as well as the latest technologies at low power, enabling a new generation of fanless designs.

OnLogic states that the new Elkhart Lake embedded systems will be available for purchase in Q2, with pricing updates available to customers that get in touch.

Source: OnLogic

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  • deil - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

    The lowest atoms with 4 cores, highest i7 with 4 cores.... intel is in funny place now.
    I feel that this product, although looking nice, have no market.
    its either too weak, too bulky or too pricy.
    Same thing can be done by android for half the power and price,
    and if you need x86 then this cpu is so weak that you will be much better with anything but this.
  • evilspoons - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

    You don't necessarily need a lot of CPU capacity to run a touchscreen interfaced to a CANbus operating a machine in a factory, doing data collection at the same time.

    Industrial pricing is always higher. No one gives a rat's ass what they look like when they're inside a control panel.

    You need to know the computer isn't going to fail when it's +55 C inside the panel from accumulated heat from half a dozen motor inverters, safety modules, relay banks, power supplies, and so on.
  • Smell This - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

    ""I feel that this product, although looking nice, have no market. its either too weak, too bulky or too pricey.""
    ____________________________________________

    'Too subsidized,' too. For 12 years Chipzillah has spent tens of billions of dollars polishing this fecal 'nugget.'
  • lmcd - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

    12 years? It's been 8 years since Silvermont, which means for Atom's history, good Atom processors have existed over twice as long as bad Atom processors. But even the original Atom processor would've learned better than you by now.
  • lmcd - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

    Of course this is all comparable to my Pine64 board using an Allwinner A64, also featuring 4 cores. Right? That's how it works right?

    Android at this point is hardly lower-spec than Windows. Atom is very underrated as well, anything at least as new as Goldmont is actually quite usable.
  • Deicidium369 - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

    "if you need x86 then this cpu is so weak that you will be much better with anything but this"

    Spoken like one of the Armchair Experts on Everything...

    Those "so weak" Atoms are perfect for this application - not like they are running Cinebench on them 24x7
  • eastcoast_pete - Saturday, February 6, 2021 - link

    Those are nice-looking units, and the specs aren't bad for what they are intended for. One aspect that's missing, either from the specs or the article is if they have any degree of dust and water protection. Do they have any IP rating?
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