What Is Technological Innovation?
Technological innovation is the process of introducing, developing, adopting, or applying new technologies, or significant improvements to existing ones. The result is value in products, processes, services, business models, or organizational systems. The word "significantly" is central: a new or significantly improved product or process must be brought to market or put into use to count as an innovation.
Key Characteristics
Technological innovation is widely treated as a critical success factor for market competitiveness. Organizations that identify technology as a source of innovation can gain an advantage over rivals. The process can be run inside a structured organization or by a group working outside one.
Where Technological Innovation Shows Up
Innovation appears in computing hardware, where newer processor generations deliver more cores, higher clock speeds, and larger caches within the same class of device. Industrial and embedded systems use these advances to run control, monitoring, and data tasks on compact, low-power hardware.
Comparison of Processor Generations in the Thinvent Range
| Processor | Generation | Cores | Max Frequency | Cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-1240P | 12th | 12 | 4.4 GHz | 12 MB |
| Intel Core i3-1215U | 12th | 6 | 4.4 GHz | 10 MB |
| Intel Core i7-1255U | 12th | 10 | 4.7 GHz | 12 MB |
| Intel Core 5 120U | 14th | 10 | 5.0 GHz | 12 MB |
| Intel N5095A | 11th | 4 | 2.9 GHz | 4 MB |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7430U | 7000 Series | 6 | 4.3 GHz | 16 MB |
Thinvent Products Featuring Modern Processor Technology
Thinvent has industrial PCs, mini PCs, and a thin client built on these processors. The Thinvent® Industrial PC IPC5 is available with Intel Core i5-1240P, Core i7-1255U, and 16 GB or 32 GB of DDR4 RAM. The Thinvent® Industrial PC IPC3 uses the Intel Core i3-1215U. The Thinvent® Aero Mini PC is available with Intel Core i3-1215U or Intel Core 5 120U. The Thinvent® Treo Mini PC is available with Intel N5095A or AMD Ryzen 5 7430U. The Thinvent® Micro 5R Thin Client uses an ARM Cortex A53 processor with WiFi 6 and Bluetooth. The Thinvent range does not include Intel processors from the 13th or 15th generation; it has the 11th, 12th, and 14th generations, and AMD Ryzen 7000 Series.
