Kontron announced the KT780/ATX motherboard that offers the AMD AM2/AM2+ socket supporting AMD Phenom™ Quad Core processor performance and the latest AMD chipsets with high-end graphics features for full 1080p High-Definition Video in a cost-effective basic motherboard design.

As the first in Kontron’s new class of so called “basic industrial motherboards”, the Kontron KT780/ATX is specially designed for high-volume OEM systems that have fast innovation cycles and therefore reduced requirements on long-term availability. The cost-effective motherboard offers up to 3 years availability and is ideal for the latest generation of POS and POI applications with high innovation rates such as: automatic check-in systems at airports, railway stations and bus stations as well as toll collection terminals, automatic cash machines and other kiosk and OEM multimedia applications in sectors such as, e.g. gaming. The Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard is also the ideal choice for factory floor applications.

Based around the latest AMD RS780 and SB700 chipsets including high-performance AMD AM2/AM2+ Athlon 64 and Phenom professional processors, the Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard offers scalable performance to meet individual application requirements. In addition to low-cost processor performance, applications also benefit from the high-end graphics features . The new integrated graphics processor (IGP) is based on the ATI Radeon HD 3200 which supports DirectX 10 and incorporates dual display, integrated DVI, HDMI (optional) and CRT as well as internal TMDS and VESA DisplayPort functionality. Furthermore, it has a Unified Video Professional decoder (UVD) for accelerated decoding of HD video data.