Kontron AG is a German-based multinational company that designs and manufactures

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, modules and boards, and provides software products for

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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 Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich. It is a College town, university town and the regional seat of the Swabia (administrative region), Swabia with a well ...

and consisted of the ''Kontron Europe GmbH'', with its main sites in

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, and

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(other locations included

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and

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). Kontron acquired Dolch in 2005. At the 2007 Embedded World trade exhibition in

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, Kontron introduced a product called UGM-M72, a modular

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for

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systems, which was based on Universal Graphics Module (UGM) design specification standard published by

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and Kontron in June 2007. The card used the M72

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from

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, and was 84 x 95 mm in size. Version 1.1 of UGM standard was published in July 2008, and

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(the parent company of ATI) announced in August 2008 that it would support the new standard. A web site for UGM standard was maintained by XGI and Kontron until the

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in 2009. In August 2017, Kontron was merged into Austrian-based S&T, and was renamed Kontron Group on 1 June 2022, with its corporate headquarters in

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. In 2022, Kontron announced the sale of its IT services business to

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in order to concentrate on its realignment as a provider of products and solutions for

. In July and August 2023, Kontron acquired Comlab AG (a Swiss company manufacturing data communication repeaters for railways), Hartmann and W-IE-NE-R group of companies from Phoenix Mecano, and Cellular Automotive Module Unit from

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. In September 2023, it was announced that Kontron acquired Altimate, the

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-headquartered software company specialising in traffic control, automated fare collection, tolling, and enforcement of traffic violations. , the subsidiaries of the group include: * ''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''

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