Nexcom Neu-X1025-N305 8-Core Intel Core i3-N305 DDR5 Digital Signage Player with Dual 4K HDMI and Dual 2.5GbE

Signage with several content zones, live data and video on two screens at once asks more of a player than a simple slideshow. The Neu-X1025-N305 is the Intel Core i3-N305 model in the Nexcom Neu-X1025 series, a fanless digital signage player with eight cores, DDR5-4800, dual 4K HDMI and two 2.5GbE ports for menu boards, transit screens and kiosks.

The Intel Core i3-N305 is an 8-core, 8-thread Alder Lake-N processor with a 15 W TDP and Intel UHD Graphics, the most headroom in the Neu-X1025 range for multi-zone content and video. One DDR5-4800 non-ECC SO-DIMM socket takes up to 16 GB, and an M.2 2242 Key M socket takes a PCIe 3.0 x1 or SATA SSD. TPM 2.0 and a watchdog timer are on board, and Windows 11 or Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or later) can be installed.

Two HDMI 1.4b outputs run at up to 3840 x 2160 at 30 Hz beside two 2.5GbE ports on Intel i226-V controllers, four USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, the power button and a locking DC jack. An RS-232/422/485 port on DB9 sits on the other side with a remote power switch jack. Internally there are an RS-232 header, three USB 2.0 ports, audio line out and 4-in/4-out GPIO, and a full-size Mini PCIe slot with a nano SIM slot takes Wi-Fi 6/6E or LTE. The Neu-X102-i3 is the DDR4 version of this model, and the Neu-X1025-N97 is the quad-core N97 model.

Power is 12 V DC from the 60 W adapter in the box, with AT or ATX power modes, so the player can switch on by itself when power returns. The Neu-X1025-N305 is fanless and runs from −5 °C to 50 °C ambient with 0.7 m/s airflow. Shock is rated to IEC 60068-2-27 and vibration to IEC 60068-2-64 and IEC 60068-2-6, and it carries CE, FCC Class A and LVD marks with UL/cUL 62368-1 listing. Nexcom lists kiosks, QSRs, drive-thrus and PIDS among its uses.