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NEXCOM intros fanless media player for digital signage

June 19, 2013

Digital signage technology provider NEXCOM has released a new fanless digital signage player, the NDiS B533, that it said "is designed to redefine customer experience in a smart, stunning and secure way."

The NDiS B533, based on the fourth-generation Intel Core processor family (formerly codenamed "Haswell"), offers improved computing and graphic performance as well as enhanced security in a reliable design, the company said. NDiS 533 can address the needs of customer and context-aware interactions, delivering engaging experiences and compelling visuals while securing the content against unauthorized access.

"Driven by the fourth-generation Intel Core processor family, NDiS B533 provides significant improvements in computing and graphics capabilities," said Steven Wu, general manager of NEXCOM's Multi-Media Solutions business unit. "NDiS B533 will spark a new wave of innovation to live up to the future of intelligence, where digital signage can interact with customers, customers' devices and [the] environment while presenting dynamic targeted contents with stunning visuals to create [an] engaging customer experience."

Sam Cravatta, product line manager for the Intel Intelligent Systems Group, said the fourth-gen Intel Core processors offer "numerous processor and graphic enhancements with integrated technologies."

"For example, Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0 accelerates integer and floating point computations to meet increasingly complex application demands such as anonymous video analytics," Cravatta said. "New graphics capabilities also enable full hardware-accelerated video decoding to allow for stereoscopic 3D visuals and faster video streaming."

Adding support for multiple displays, NDiS B533 now has three HDMI interfaces. The digital signage player also incorporates a fanless design in an aluminum cover for reliable operation, and uses the latest Intel AES-NI to protect signage content from tampering. The new instructions and enhancements in Intel AES-NI allow NDiS B533 to hardware encrypt or decrypt both local and streaming contents without taxing the processor resources, safeguarding signage content that is of high value to businesses, the company said.

NDiS B533 supports the fourth-generation Intel Core i7-4770TE and i5-4570TE processors and Intel Q87 chipset. The player also supports up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, VESA/wall mounting, three independent displays with HDMI interface and network connections including LAN, Wi-Fi, and 3.5G or LTE. USB 3.0 interfaces and Mini-PCIe slot are also available for custom function and peripheral expansion.

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