“We have been planning this move for some time,” said Andy MacCaig, Abaco’s UK managing director. “It will allow us to serve our customers better by improving our efficiency – eliminating transit time, for example – and will create new synergies between our design/development teams and our manufacturing teams that will lead to better communication and real opportunities to innovate.
“The net result will be the ability to deliver even better products to our customers more quickly. Those benefits will also be felt by the customers to whom we provide contract manufacturing services.”
Abaco says it has invested significantly in state-of-the-art equipment at its Milton Keynes site and this will be relocated to the new site.
Recently, the company unveiled the PowerXtreme PPC11A 6U VME rugged single board computer. Based on Power Architecture, the board is available in high performance and low power versions.
The high power board features a 1.8GHz QorIQ T2081 processor, said to double the performance of its predecessor. The low power board features a 1.4GHz QoriQ T1042 processor, with four single-threaded e5500 cores and consuming less than 7.5W.