AdvancedTCA
When we say the AdvancedTCA it is the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture. Or it means that it is a carrier grade backplane. The interconnect specification developed by PICMG. It is also defined under the PICMG 3.x standards. We can say that it is designed for industrial strength telecom equipment and datacenter servers, the AdvancedTCA cards are 14″ high (8U) and may reside in single slot cabinets or cabinets up to 23″ wide that hold 16 cards.
Every system and subsystem that you can experience has to fit within some power budget. At one time, a plug-in board for an IBM PC was risky if it dissipated more than 15 watts. Until recently, carrier hotels had cooling for 50-150 watts per square foot may be depends on the size. 3000 watts per rack was a big deal it really was because of the thousand watts. Try putting an IBM blade server in that! You’d be hard pressed to support ten CPUs in an entire rack.
While the Kontron AM4011 is an AdvancedMC processor module. The Kontron AM4011 is available with the LV Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The Kontron AM4011 AdvancedMC processor module is highly integrated and available in both mid-size and full-size form factors. It also includes up to 4 GB of memory (DDR2) with ECC running at 400 MHz, plus up to 8 GB of Flash memory via an onboard USB 2.0 Flash controller. The board also features GbE interfaces — two available on the front panel, two in accordance with AMC.2.