One of the important thing verticals within the integration of 5G we’re instructed is within the industrial area – having machines on a store ground talk wi-fi to a central management hub with ultra-low latency or with ultra-high bandwidth. Automation and management are two parts that these designs can convey, which basically falls underneath the ‘Internet of Things’ heading.
To that finish, GIGABYTE’s Industrial PC division (GIGAIPC) has developed its first 5G licensed PC for industrial use instances. As an added bonus, it’s a fanless design, outfitted with a Core i3-7100U and with area for as much as 32 GB of DDR4. The QBiX Pro (QBiX-Pro-KBLB7100HD-A1) has handed verification subject checks with Chunghwa Telecom’s 5G community earlier this yr, and comes with plenty of key industrial options, resembling COM header help, twin Ethernet, video outputs, and loads of USB. GIGAIPC is aiming its new QBiX Pro at automation, transportation, sensible retail, medical, edge computing, and basically something IoT that requires high-reliability and 5G connectivity within the subject.
5G is supplied by an on-board PCIe answer, which GIGAIPC hasn’t cited nevertheless we now have reached out to get this data. It could be very more likely to be a mix Qualcomm RF and front-end answer for sub 6 GHz, given the Chunghwa verification, which is hooked up by an onboard M.2 slot. If earlier M.2 options are something to go by, these 5G M.2 modules are wider than the usual M.2 widths we see for storage drives.
Update: It is Qualcomm, nevertheless we weren’t instructed which one.
