In this video, Christian Eder, the Chairperson of the COM-HPC Technical committee and Director of Marketing for congatec explains not only why there is a need for a new spec, but how it was developed.

One important issue when scoping out a new specification is to be sure that it can live a long, healthy life. When writing the new COM-HPC specification, the authors did just that, as Intel’s Joel Finkel and Pawitter Bhatia explain in this video.

In this video, Kontron’s Stefan Milnor starts out explaining in general terms how a spec gets written. Then he details how that translated to the new COM-HPC specification, which is written under the guidelines of PICMG.