Portwell Expands Its Portfolio of Industrial ATX Motherboards with Intel G41 Express Chipset

Portwell’s new RUBY-9719VG2AR, based on Intel G41 and ICH7R chipset, features six Power COM ports and supports a wide range of Intel processors including Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium and Celeron.

November 3rd, 2009

FREMONT, CALIF – November 3, 2009 — American Portwell Technology, Inc., (www.portwell.com) an Associate member of the Intel Embedded Alliance, announces RUBY-9719VG2AR, a new addition to its portfolio of industrial ATX form factor motherboards. The RUBY-9719VG2AR, based on Intel G41 and ICH7R chipset, supports a wide range of Intel processors including Core™ 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium® and Celeron®. In addition, the new RUBY-9719VG2AR features two 240-pin DIMM that support DDR2 SDRAM up to 4 GB, and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. Storage capabilities include four SATA ports, one IDE connector and one Compact Flash connector; expansion is executed via one PCI-E x16, six 32-bit PCI slots or five 32-bit PCI slots and one ISA slot.

Other features include eight USB ports and audio available via mic-in, line-in and line-out. RUBY-9719VG2AR supports a range of Microsoft® Windows® operating systems such as Windows XP Embedded, Windows XP, Windows Vista, plus Linux®. This powerful industrial ATX motherboard provides the ideal solution for multiple applications such as industrial control and automation, multimedia, gaming, kiosk, digital signage, print imaging, digital surveillance and network security.

“What makes this new product different is that we’ve included six Power COM ports,” says Jimmy Chang, American Portwell Technology, Inc’s product marketing manager. “These power serial ports include one RS232/422/485 at the rear I/O and five RS232 internal ports, all of which operate at a selectable 5V/12V. We’ve also placed one parallel port at the rear I/O. But there’s even more to the new RUBY-9719VG2AR,” he adds, “such as the fact that the Intel G41 Express chipset has built-in GMA X4500 that delivers optimized 3D graphics performance and support for DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 and Open GL 2.0. The four SATA ports supply a high-speed storage interface that supports a faster transfer rate for improved data access with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10.”

According to Frank Shen, American Portwell’s product marketing director, the new RUBY-9719VG2AR industrial ATX form factor motherboard complements the factors that make the existing product portfolio so successful. “Its feature-rich make-up uses the most current technology to provide high-performance graphics and support for a wide range of processors and the latest operating systems in the embedded systems market.”

“Our customers not only benefit from American Portwell’s ability to consistently provide the most up-to-date technology and features, such as six Power COM ports,” Shen confirms, “but they also gain peace of mind from the long life cycle support inherent with every Portwell product.”

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About American Portwell Technology

American Portwell Technology, Inc., is a world-leading innovator in the embedded computing market and an Associate member of the Intel Embedded Alliance. American Portwell Technology designs, manufactures and markets a complete range of PICMG computer boards, embedded computer boards and systems, and rackmount systems for both OEMs and ODMs. American Portwell is both an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 certified company. The company is located in Fremont, California. For more information about American Portwell’s extensive turnkey and private-label branding solutions, call 1-877-APT-8899, email info@portwell.com or visit us at www.portwell.com.

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Product Contact:

Jimmy Chang

Product Marketing Manager

American Portwell Technology, Inc.

510-403-3318

Jimmyc@portwell.com

Media Contact:

Susan Wei

American Portwell Technology, Inc.

510-403-3354

Susanw@portwell.com

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