KONTRON LAUNCHES PCI-953 SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER

SBC Featuring Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology Supports Broad Range of Applications

SAN FRANCISCO - February 17, 2004 -- Kontron, a leading embedded computer technology company, today launched its newest PICMG 1.0 single board computer -- the PCI-953.

The PCI-953 is a generic processing engine board designed to support a broad range of applications requiring ISA bus support with high-performance processing, such as those found in automation, communications, medical and military environments. Combining high value, fast time-to-market and long life support, the PCI-953 offers a host of design and integration possibilities for developers. It is especially suited for applications requiring high memory bandwidth combined with CPU intensive tasks such as image processing, VoIP, and HLR/SCP.

The PCI-953 includes a rich set of standard features including the latest generation Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at up to 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB, dual channel memory DDR, 2-channel serial ATA, an onboard ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500dual-screen video controller, dual gigabit Ethernet and 64-bit at 66MHz bus support. Additional onboard features include a Mini-PCI card interface, one EIDE hard disk interface, Compact Flash module support, four USB 2.0 ports, two serial ports, floppy disk controller, and board monitoring controller. The PCI-953 supports various operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Linux.

The PCI-953 is available via an early access program, with full production expected to begin in March 2004. Contact your Kontron Sales Engineer at 1-800-523-2320 for OEM pricing.
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About Kontron: A leading global embedded computer technology company, Kontron supplies a diversified customer base of OEMs, system integrators and application providers in the communications, automation, transportation, medical, military, aerospace, and test and measurement markets. The company helps its customers to considerably reduce their time-to-market and to gain a competitive advantage with products including high-performance open computer platforms and systems, single board computers, man-machine interfaces and mobile computers. Kontron employs more than 1,500 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The company is listed on the German TecDAX 30 stock exchange under the symbol ´KBC´ Kontron is a member of the Intel Communications Alliance. For additional information on Kontron, please visit: www.kontron.com.

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Shirley Chen
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Phone: 858-623-3075
shirley.chen@kontron.com

EMEA
Claus Giebert
Product Manager
Phone: +49(8165)77-349
claus.giebert@kontron.com

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