Nexcom Neu-X100 Intel Apollo Lake Low-Profile Fanless Industrial PCs with Dual GbE

Small edge jobs such as a retail screen, a kiosk controller or a smart city gateway rarely justify a large computer, but they still need dependable networking, a serial link and room for a cellular modem. The Nexcom Neu-X100 series covers that ground with a slim design built around a 3.5 inch board. These Fanless Industrial PCs use low-power Intel Apollo Lake processors in a case only 37 mm high, so they can be fixed behind a display, inside a kiosk or on a cabinet wall.

Every Neu-X100 shares the same layout. One DDR3L SO-DIMM socket takes up to 8 GB at 1866 MHz, storage is an M.2 2242 Key M SSD, and a full-size mini-PCIe socket with a full-size SIM slot takes a Wi-Fi or LTE module, with two antenna holes on the rear. The front panel carries two GbE ports, two HDMI 2.0 outputs at 4096 x 2160 and 60 Hz, two USB 3.0 ports, an RS232/422/485 port and a locking DC jack, while an internal RS232 connector, line-out and a TPM module connector sit on the board. Nexcom also offers AIBooster-X1 and AIBooster-X2 mini-PCIe cards with Intel Movidius Myriad X VPUs for vision workloads, and shows the series as Microsoft Azure Certified.

Three versions differ by processor. The Neu-X100-N3350 uses the Intel Celeron N3350 at up to 2.4 GHz and 6 W with Intel HD Graphics 500, the lowest-power option. The Neu-X100-N4200 uses the Intel Pentium N4200 at up to 2.5 GHz and 6 W with HD Graphics 505. The Neu-X100-J3455 uses the Intel Celeron J3455 at up to 2.3 GHz and 10 W with HD Graphics 500, the version with the most processing headroom.

Nexcom positions the Neu-X100 series for information visualization and smart retail, endless aisles, QSRs, drive-through kiosks, bus stops and information stands, and as a gateway for smart city projects. The Fanless Industrial PCs run from -5 °C to 50 °C on a 19 V DC input with a 45 W locking adapter, measure 179.5 x 106 x 37 mm and carry CE and FCC Class A approval. Windows 10 64-bit and Linux are supported across the Neu-X100 range.