— by Rugged PC Review

“… The 9th gen octa-core Intel Core i7-9700TE equipped Cincoze GM-1000 provides excellent performance, scoring overall higher than any of the mobile rugged systems we're usually testing here at RuggedPCReview.com.”
 

 
Cincoze calls their new GM-1000 an embedded GPU computer. They arrived at this description as follows: The GM-1000 is, of course, a computer, one with up to 8 high-performance processing cores and 16 threads doing all the usual things a modern computer does — heavy multi-tasking, powering through serial tasks in multiple threads. But the GM-1000 is also built to accommodate specialized graphics processing units via Mobile PCI Express Modules. Those can have hundreds or even over a thousand cores, perfect for parallel processing of specific complex tasks. Then the GM-1000 is designed as an embedded system, i.e. a compact, rugged, utterly reliable part of a task-oriented process or system.
 
What is the GM-1000 for? All sorts of things that require a combination of high-performance computing and high-speed optical analysis and recognition. That includes machine visions tasks, such as automated optical inspection, automated sorting or vision-guided robotics. Video surveillance is on the list, with comprehensive site monitoring, facial recognition, and behavioral prediction algorithms. In transportation, systems like the GM-1000 are deployed for tasks such as autonomous driving, blind sport detection, or driver fatigue recognition. On a higher level, there's also overall traffic monitoring, license plate recognition, or even baggage screening.
 
Steel, aluminum, copper (and a splash of orange)
The image below shows the Cincoze GM-1000 from the top and all four sides. The device consists of aluminum front and back plates with polycarbon fascia (and more steel inside) with cutouts for the various ports, and large, prominent finned aluminum heat sinks/spreaders. There is no fan on or in the unit itself; by default heat is conducted away from the Cincoze GM-1000's CPU and other electronics to the large metal heat sinks via heat-conducting material and then dissipated to the air. Our review unit had no problems keeping things cool with its 35 watt TDP processor. However, there's more to thermal management than meets the eye with this industrial PC, and we'll get into that a bit later.
 
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