What Do ASUS IoT 3.5-Inch SBCs Offer for Edge Workloads?
January 29, 2025
ASUS IoT’s 3.5-inch single board computers (SBCs) put edge AI processing, several displays, and industrial I/O on a compact board that runs from a 9 to 36 V supply. Two families cover different ends of the range: Meteor Lake boards with Intel Core Ultra processors for the heaviest workloads, and Amston Lake boards with Intel Atom x7000RE processors where power consumption matters most. We source them through the FORTEC Group and supply, integrate, and support them from Ronkonkoma, New York.
What do the Meteor Lake SBCs offer?
Core Ultra performance with four displays and long availability. There are two models with the same I/O:
- C5143ES-IM-AA with an Intel Core Ultra 5 135U.
- C7146ES-IM-AA with an Intel Core Ultra 7 165U, for more performance.
Both take up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR5-5600 and drive up to four displays across HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C, and LVDS/eDP. They add dual LAN, several COM ports, M.2 and Nano-SIM slots, a 9 to 36 V input, and a -20 to +60°C operating range, with long-term availability of up to seven years. Three M.2 slots take LTE/5G and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules, so the boards network devices in industrial and IoT projects. They suit medical technology, automation, measurement technology, and human-machine interfaces (HMIs), and edge AI applications such as smart retail, autonomous vehicles, and video processing.
When is the Amston Lake SBC the better fit?
When the design needs efficient processing in harsher conditions. The Amston Lake SBC uses the Intel Atom x7000RE series, which doubles the processor cores of the previous generation at the same power consumption, and Intel Deep Learning Boost accelerates object recognition and other AI tasks. Up to 16 GB of DDR5 with in-band ECC keeps memory errors to a minimum for machine learning, edge computing, and industrial control.
- -20 to +70°C operation from a 9 to 36 V DC input.
- Multi-display output over DisplayPort, HDMI, and LVDS/eDP.
- M.2 B-, E-, and M-key slots and six serial interfaces.
- Uses including autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), medical technology, e-mobility, and machine control.
For a 3.5-inch Amston Lake board that carries display, power, and touch signals over one USB-C cable, the FORTEC Integrated SBCPRO-X51 is another option. Our introduction to single board computers explains where SBCs fit in an embedded design.
How do we deliver them?
As a working system, not a bare board. We deliver the SBC with RAM, SSD, and an operating system such as Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC pre-installed, and we add hardware design and software development where the project needs them. Tell us what the board has to run and where, and we will take it from there: we recommend the board, integrate it with the display and power supply, and stay with the project from first samples to series production, backed by our technical services.
