Intel Compute Card, Intel's solution intended primarily for the industrial and professional sector, will be based on very low-power Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake processors with a very tight TDP.
During CES 2017, Intel announced the development of an innovative product, a complete computer that was the size of a credit card, literally, which it called the Intel Compute Card. This small equipment would have all the elements that a conventional computer would need and to function it would need to be inserted into a compatible monitor. This allows you to take your own equipment, with your settings, everywhere and work with your programs, in addition to having access to all the content that you have developed on this platform and not depending on the cloud or third-party equipment.
Intel's Compute Card would be inserted into a specific reader, as if it were an SD card, and is primarily intended for industrial robots and cash registers, although the uses can be multiple. Intel presented this product at CES 2017, although a lot of data about it was missing and some of the missing data has already been known. One of the most important was the processing unit or CPU, which would take care of all the work and would be based on Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake processors.
Intel will implement processors normally used in compact computers and ultrabooks, which have very low power consumption and a ridiculous TDP. Specifically, the Apollo Lake m3-7Y30 and i5-7Y75 will be used and in the case of Kaby Lake the Celeron N3450 and Pentium N4200 will be used. These are the ones we know about, and other processors will be added in future updates. It has also been announced that it will implement up to 4GB of DDR3L RAMD working at 1866MHz, while for storage it will have 64Gb or 128Gb, depending on the model, of eMMC storage. Regarding the size, we know that these units will measure 55x95x5mm, being an extremely compact complete computer. There is no data on availability or price.
