LONDON, UK – 18 March, 2011 – Anders Electronics plc has announced a strategic joint venture with CompuLab, the Israeli manufacturer of computer-on-module (CoM) boards and miniature PC systems.
The joint venture leverages each company’s core competencies – CompuLab’s in the areas of core modules and ultra-miniature PCs and Anders’ in developing user interface solutions – to expand the product range and value proposition that the two companies can provide European customers. As part of the joint venture Anders will also be providing more resource for sales, support and marketing channels.
Anders has supplied European OEMs with Compulab’s comprehensive range of CoM and embedded motherboard technologies for a number of years. More recently the company – which has exclusive rights in the UK for the CompuLab product range – established a channel to support significant growth of the Compulab fit-PC family of ultra-miniature, ultra-low-power, enclosed industrial PCs. Many CompuLab technologies are also at the heart of Anders’ own series of UMR intelligent display UI (user interface) platforms.
A key focus for the new venture will be enhancing the fit-PC value proposition through the development of solutions for kiosks and other specific applications; integration with multi-touch monitors; and the availability of software application bundles and additional hardware peripherals.
Anders Electronics CEO Rob Anders comments: “Relationships are at the core of everything Anders does and it is exciting to be able to take the successful CompuLab relationship to the next level. CompuLab continues to launch innovative embedded products such as the fit-PC range of tiny, green industrial computers. Combining these technologies with our own UI offerings sets the stage for some exciting and highly differentiated hardware and software offerings in the coming months.”
Irad Stavi, CompuLab’s Director of Business Development, adds: “Anders has been a key CompuLab partner in Europe and our exclusive representative in the UK for a number of years. We look forward to building on the success of this relationship with a joint venture that will add value to our respective offerings while strengthening the sales and support channel across the region.”
CompuLab Technologies
CompuLab’s core module technologies can provide the component nucleus of a customer-designed embedded system through a single-board that adds high-performance CPU, memory and standard communication interfaces to application-specific DSP/Communication hardware. The company’s ready-to-run fit-PC products are the world’s smallest and most efficient enclosed industrial PCs and combine ultra-low power consumption with the power of a desktop computer,
Delivering high levels of integration in a very small form factor, CompuLab CoM and embedded motherboard technologies enable the development of new, more compact and higher performance embedded applications as well as allowing functionality to be added to existing hardware without major mechanical redesign. In effect these technologies reduce design and re-design risk and support much faster design cycles and end product introductions by offering a fully debugged component core.
From the low power of ARM based CPUs (OMAP, Sitara, PXA-300/310 and Armada 510) to X86 Atom CPUs (Z510/Z530 and E6XX ‘Tunnel Creek’) the CompuLab portfolio has a core to suit most industrial applications. Generic base board schematics are freely downloadable and, as part of the service, design engineers at CompuLab also offer a base board schematic verification service and technical support for LINUX and Windows CE/XP/7.
The fit-PC family of enclosed industrial PCs brings together low-power Intel Atom processors with high-capacity DDR2 RAM, up to 2GB of Flash memory, a 250GB hard disk and a selection of interfaces. As a result fit-PC products provide a quick and easy route to add PC functionality to a variety of industrial and commercial applications.
About Anders Electronics
Since 1952, Anders Electronics has been helping people interact with technology by streamlining the user-machine interface and optimising the user experience. A leading global supplier of display components, Intelligent Displays and GUI solutions, AndersDX Electronics also provides world-class design, development, integration, manufacturing and supply chain management.
With over 55 years of experience exceeding the expectations of blue chip customers across a wide range of sectors, unparalleled technological expertise, and an ingrained “people first” service orientation – Anders Electronics offers our OEM clients a single, dedicated source for all their display needs. A global sales and engineering infrastructure in Europe, North America, and the Middle East, coupled with a fulfilment and logistics presence in the Far East, ensure that Anders is available when our clients need us – in their language and time zone.
