Economic Facts
Kontron designs and manufactures embedded computer systems at locations in Europe (Southern Germany), America (Montreal, Minneapolis, San Diego) and Asia (Taipei). Founded in 1962, Kontron is a world market leader. The enterprise, headquartered in Eching (near Munich), Germany, is listed on the German stock exchange under the symbol "KBC" (TecDAX 30). Kontron is a Premier Member with the Intel Communications Alliance.

Bringing new applications to market first
Kontron helps leading OEMs and systems integrators to significantly reduce their time-to-market to gain a competitive edge. Kontron designs and manufactures innovative building blocks capable of supporting numerous applications for today‘s networked infrastructure. Our broad portfolio of products includes Computer-On-Modules industry standard COM Express, PCI, ATCA, CompactPCI, ePCI-X and VME board-level solutions, open platform communications servers, industrial-grade rackmount solutions, Human-Machine Interface (HMI) systems, and mobile rugged computers. Kontron products are designed to withstand higher temperature ranges, shock, vibration, moisture, dust and electrical noise; all of which are characteristic of embedded computing applications. Kontron solutions can be found at work in a wide range of industries and applications.
Providing custom design, integration
Although Kontron‘s wide array of standard product designs offer alternatives that can span the requirements of most applications‘ configuration scenarios, we also provide in-depth design support for custom tailoring of products to meet specific application requirements unique to our customers‘ situations. Kontron has an extensive knowledge and experience in different leading edge technology areas. We are one of the most experienced developers and producers in the industry of:


Processors boards – just to name a few: Latest Intel® x86 and XScale, Strongarm, XScale, PowerPC, Geode
Operating systems – Windows 2000/XP, E