This Week's Focus: Digital Signage
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Slim Signage Player Features Radeon E8860 GPU and 6 HDMI Ports

Ibase's new SI-626 digital signage and video wall (VW) player combines high-end functionality with a slim 30 mm height-1.5 mm thinner than its AMD Ryzen V1000 based SI-324 player. Like the SI-324, the SI-626 features hardware based EDID remote management with software setting mode to prevent display issues due to cable disconnection or display identification failures.
 
The system is notable for providing AMD's Radeon E8860 graphics, which can drive six HDMI 1.4b displays. There's also hardware EDID emulation for remote operation, as well as a "flexible VW display configuration setting."

Like Ibase's recent SI-614 and OPS-compatible IOPS-602
players, the SI-626 supports Intel's 7th Gen "Kaby Lake" Core processors, and like the IOPS-602, it also supports 6th Gen Skylake parts. The system supports 7th and 6th Gen chips with FCBGA1440 sockets and Intel QM170 or HM170 chipsets by way of a "MBD626" mainboard.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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SDM-S-Based Display Module for Digital Signage

Axiomtek has introduced the SDM300S, a signage computer module with the latest small Intel Smart Display Module (Intel SDM-S) architecture. The SDM300S is powered by the onboard Intel Pentium processor N4200 or Celeron processor N3350 with the Intel HD Graphics 505 or 500 chipset. It can be externally plugged or integrated into a display and is well-suited for space-constricting applications. The smart display module is optimized for digital signage, interactive kiosk, point of sale (POS) and video wall applications.
The all-in-one SDM300S measures 100 mm x 60 mm (roughly the size of a credit card) and doesn't have a housing, so it is well-suited for thin displays. The Intel SDM Small (Intel SDM-S) module has one GbE LAN port (built-in Intel Ethernet controller i211AT) and two USB 3.0 ports. The SDM300S has high-speed PCIe connectivity with a custom I/O receptacle board that eliminates the need for external I/Os. It has built-in USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort 1.2, Serial TX/RX and I2C signals. Additionally, one M.2 Key E 2230 slot is available for a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth module. The SDM300S features one 4 GB or 8 GB of LPDDR4 memory onboard, plus an onboard 32/64GB eMMC.



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Advantech announced a fanless, USM-110 digital signage player with support for Android 6.0 and its WISE-PaaS/SignageCMS digital signage management software. The compact (156 mm x 110 mm x 
27 mm) device follows earlier Advantech signage computers such as the slim-height, Intel Skylake based DS-081.

Advantech did not reveal the name of the quad-core, Cortex-A17 SoC, which is clocked to 1.6 GHz and accompanied by a Mali-T764. It sounds very close to the Rockchip RK3288, which is found on SBCs such as the Asus Tinker Board, although that SoC instead has a Mali T760 GPU. Other quad -A17 SoCs include the Zhaoxin ZX-2000 found on VIA Technologies' ALTA DS 4K signage player.

The USM-110, which is also available in a less feature rich USM-110 Delight model, ships with 2 GB DDR3L-1333, as well as a microSD slot. You get 16 GB of eMMC on the standard version and 8 GB on the Delight. There's also a GbE port and an M.2 slot with support for an optional WiFi module with antenna kit.