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The industrial pc tag on WindowsForum.com covers ruggedized Windows computers designed for harsh environments, including factory floors, field deployments, and edge computing. Recent discussions focus on Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ-X family, which brings ARM-based CPUs, local AI acceleration up to 45 TOPS, and Windows 11 IoT support to industrial PCs and controllers. Other threads address practical deployment issues such as the On-Screen Keyboard behavior during Windows OOBE on industrial touch screen PCs. Topics span hardware specifications, AI capabilities, and real-world configuration challenges for industrial Windows systems.
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    IBASE AA400-N: What Its 256GB Memory Claim Really Means

    IBASE’s AA400-N is an intriguing fanless industrial PC because it combines AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000-series processors with a claimed ceiling of 256GB of DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM memory. If that capacity is usable in shipping systems, it would give compact Windows edge deployments far more local headroom...
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    Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ X: Rugged Windows Industrial PCs with On‑Device AI

    Qualcomm’s new Dragonwing IQ‑X family marks a deliberate push into ruggedized industrial Windows PCs, packing Oryon CPU cores, an Adreno GPU and a mid‑range Hexagon NPU rated up to 45 TOPS into COM/SOM‑friendly packages built for prolonged field use and long product lifecycles. Background /...
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    Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-X: Rugged Industrial AI on Windows 11 IoT

    Qualcomm’s latest Dragonwing IQ‑X family of system‑on‑chips (SoCs) pushes the company deeper into industrial edge computing by packaging a ruggedized ARM‑based CPU, local AI acceleration and Windows 11 IoT support into modules designed for harsh factory and field environments — and while the...
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    Windows 7 OSK during OOBE

    In constructing images for an industrial touch screen PC, I have noticed that the OSK (On Screen Keyboard) shows up during the OOBE (Out of Box Experience) on the English image, and the German Image. I specifically enabled this for the logon screen and was surprised to see it during the OOBE...