congatec AG expands to address US Market

congatec AG, a leading innovator in embedded computing, has incorporated a US entity, congatec Inc., and will begin looking for a location for a California-based office immediately. The office will initially employ about 10 congatec employees headed by Ron Mazza, an industry veteran of more than 30 years.

"Although congatec is a young company, it was started by some of the most experienced technologists in the computer-on-module market. Building our products from the ground up has allowed us to offer some of the most advanced technology on the market. Our latest creation is the new industry standard, called QSeven, that will address all mobile and ultra mobile applications. The fact that the company is already profitable in Europe and Asia shows the tremendous customer demand already in place for our products," stated Gerhard Edi, CEO of congatec AG.

Attendees of ESC Silicon Valley 2008 will have the opportunity to see a live demonstration of congatec extremely low power consuming COM Express Compact module called conga-CA. It features the brand new Intel?Atom?processor Z5xx series and the Intel System Controller Hub US15W.

Based in Deggendorf Germany, congatec AG (www.congatec.us) is an innovative and experienced manufacturer of COM Express, XTX and ETX embedded computer boards, with more than 200-manpower years of experience in the fast growing embedded computer industry. The company's objective is to engineer and market industrial computer modules based on standard form factors, including an embedded BIOS, excellent driver support as well as full-featured board support packages.