Kontron
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| Company type | Public |
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| FWB: KTN | |
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| Founded | 1959 |
| Founder | Branco Weiss |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | |
| Products | Embedded systems, motherboards, daughterboards, computer-on-modules, monitors, industrial PCs |
| Revenue | €1,22 billion (2023)[1] |
| €86.5 million (2023) | |
| €77.7 million) (2023) | |
| Total assets | €1,370 million (end 2023) |
| Total equity | €604 million (end 2023)[1] |
Number of employees | 4,838 (end 2023) |
| Website | www |
Kontron AG is a German-based multinational company which designs and manufactures embedded systems, modules and boards, and provides software products for Internet of Things and 5G technologies.
The company operates in various industrial segments (including industrial automation, communications, transportation, energy, avionics, medical, automotive, and military), manufacturing and selling its products worldwide. Kontron is a premier member of the Intel Embedded Alliance.
The corporate group was originally headquartered in Augsburg and consisted of the Kontron Europe GmbH, with its main sites in Ismaning, Augsburg, Deggendorf, and Saarbrücken (other locations included San Diego, Fremont, California, Montreal, Plzeň, Toulon, Bangalore, Taipei, Tokyo and Beijing). Kontron acquired Dolch in 2005.
At the 2007 Embedded World trade exhibition in Nuremberg, Kontron introduced a product called UGM-M72, a modular graphics card for Computer-on-Module systems, which was based on Universal Graphics Module (UGM) design specification standard published by XGI Technology and Kontron in June 2007.[2] The card used the M72 GPU from ATI Technologies, and was 84 x 95 mm in size.[3] Version 1.1 of UGM standard was published in July 2008,[4] and Advanced Micro Devices (the parent company of ATI) announced in August 2008 that it would support the new standard.[5] A web site for UGM standard was maintained by XGI and Kontron until the Great Recession in 2009.[6]
In August 2017, Kontron was merged into Austrian-based S&T,[7] and was renamed Kontron Group on 1 June 2022, with its corporate headquarters in Linz.[8][9]
In 2022, Kontron announced the sale of its IT services business to Vinci SA in order to concentrate on its realignment as a provider of products and solutions for Internet of Things.[10]
In July and August 2023, Kontron acquired Comlab AG (a Swiss company manufacturing data communication repeaters for railways),[11] Hartmann and W-IE-NE-R group of companies from Phoenix Mecano,[12] and Cellular Automotive Module Unit from Telit Cinterion.[13] In September 2023, it was announced that Kontron acquired Altimate, the Bucharest-headquartered software company specialising in traffic control, automated fare collection, tolling, and enforcement of traffic violations.[14]
As of July 2024[update], the subsidiaries of the group include:[15]
- Kontron Europe
- Kontron Bulgaria
- Kontron AIS
- susietec
- Kontron Technologies
- Kontron Transportation
- Kontron Slovenia
- Kontron Medical
- S&T Medtech
- Smart Metering
- Solutions for Power Systems
- Kontron ODM/EMS Alliance
- Kontron Services Austria
- Kontron Hungary
- Kontron Services Romania
- Kontron Slovenia
- Kontron Americas
- Kontron Asia
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Kontron Annual Report 2023" (PDF). Kontron. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Open Standard: XGI and Kontron Publish the UGM 1.0 Embedded Graphics Module Specification". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "UGM-M72 Datasheet" (PDF). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Kontron publishes updated UGM standard for Graphic-on-Modules". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "AMD supports the UGM Consortium". 21 September 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ "Universal Graphics Module Consortium". Archived from the original on 26 July 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ "Kontron AG reports completion of its merger into S&T Deutschland Holding AG". Press release. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ "Kontron AG: S&T AG changes name to Kontron AG | Kontron Investor Relations". ir.kontron.com. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "S&T: Change of name to Kontron • wienerborse.at/en". Wiener Börse AG. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Kontron AG: Sale to VINCI Energies S.A. closes". 29 December 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Kontron acquires Comlab AG". 6 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "M&A – Kontron acquires Hartmann and W-IE-NE-R". 28 August 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Kontron acquires CellularAutomotive Module Unit from Telit Cinterion". 3 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Kontron acquires Altimate for €11.64 million". evertiq.com. 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- ^ "Explore Kontron Group companies". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
