GMS Introduces the World’s Smallest Open Standards Rugged Mission Computer Under $10,000 USD
General Micro Systems (GMS) announced the value-priced X7 RAPTOR™ mission computer. At a mere 1″ high and 4″ wide, and intended for sale for under $10,000 in capable rugged configurations, X7’s streamlined feature set enables the deployable edge computer to have the best size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) of any rugged computer on the market. The price point reflects a value-oriented feature set for specific high-volume battlefield applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), manpack/wearables, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
A transformative leap forward in defense electronics, the X7 RAPTOR is GMS’s rugged airborne/ portable/wearable mission computing and sensor platform. It leverages the benefits of GMS’s MIL-SPEC X9 SPIDER™ family. It carries over the same industry-firsts in hardware, mechanical, and thermal innovations, while further reducing system size and cost by eliminating non-essential communication interfaces. With its ultra-small, high-performance, space-optimized CPU board, plus 40 Gbps of Thunderbolt I/O bandwidth and dual 1 GigE ports, X7 modules can be configured into any system imaginable—with other computer-off-the-shelf (COTS) peripherals or with GMS X9 SPIDER products.
“The RAPTOR’s ideal use case is in systems where value pricing is balanced with high-performance and ‘just right’ ruggedness, such as ‘swarm’ UAVs, remote sensors, wearable/backpacks, or smart munitions,” said Ben Sharfi, CEO and chief architect, GMS. “With the 1-inch high X7 RAPTOR, we’ve eliminated ‘non-essential’ communication interfaces to reduce package size, weight, and power further. This means the X7 RAPTOR delivers command-post-level processing performance in the smallest form factor ever available to military organizations. No one should pay for what’s not needed.”
“Really Rugged”
For defense applications that do not require a full temperature range of -40° C to +85° C, the X7 RAPTOR is a no-frills mission computer with just the right amount of storage, memory, and I/O. Its streamlined feature set allows the deployable edge computer to have the best SWaP-C of any rugged computer on the market.
The ultra-small X7 RAPTOR supports the high-performance processing, I/O, memory, and flexible power needs of today’s military computing applications, including manpack/wearables, UAVs, and UASs. With its superior performance, distributed computing architecture (DCA), and seamless connectivity with other COTS components, the X7 RAPTOR brings a new level of compact performance to the company’s X9 portfolio of ruggedized computers and modules.