About Quixant
Quixant is the only company in the world focused exclusively on designing and manufacturing PC-compatible computer systems for the global casino gaming industry.
Our mission is to use our expertise and experience to produce the most technically and commercially advanced products to match the growing needs of the world's leading gaming machine manufacturers.
Quixant achieved a major milestone in September 2005 at the Entertainment Industry Exhibition in Kiev, with the launch of the ground-breaking QX-10 platform: the only computers featuring TotalEncryption™ technology.
Quixant Limited has its headquarters in London, UK and has a sales office in Moscow delivering sales and engineering support to its many customers in this region. Quixant Asia Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, is based in Taipei, and offers purchasing, manufacturing, testing and engineering support services.
The Gaming Market
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The market for casino gaming machines is considerable (over 2.5 million slot machines installed worldwide in 2003), growing worldwide, and highly specialised. Slot machines now all feature a computer at their heart, but no standard computer will meet their significant technical and commercial requirements because:
- It must meet the strict standards of regulatory bodies, such as the Nevada Gaming Commission
- It must be available to purchase without any alterations for many years
- It must form a complete system by interfacing to casino networks and cash-handling components, which will not connect to a standard PC
- It must be of very high reliability to avoid downtime, which leads to lost revenue
Quixant's business is to understand these exacting requirements, and to develop systems that cater for them directly, allowing simple integration, and providing the clear choice of solution for slot machine manufacturers.
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Product Focus
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Quixant's QX-10 gaming platform and its successors differentiate themselves from their competition through:
- Class-leading performance
- Low power consumption
- Reliable and quiet fanless operation
- Simple maintenance
- Best-in-class software security through TotalEncryption™ technology
- Unrivalled development support toolsets.
Development tools were recently named in an Embedded Systems Magazine survey as the most important factor given by engineers in choosing a platform. With the release of its Oxygen Software Development Suite, Quixant provided the only tool set targeted at the specific needs of game software producers.
Quixant are unique in having complete control over their product, from design and development through to manufacture of all parts, and on all aspects of it: hardware, firmware, Operating System, middleware and development tools.
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Experience
Quixant is unique in its knowledge of the needs of the gaming industry, tightly-coupled with ground level computer and software design and manufacturing experience.
Our engineering and production team has been designing and manufacturing PC-compatible industrial motherboards since the early 1990s. They have been designing systems for the gaming industry for nearly a decade, of which there are now over 30,000 in the field.
Company Milestones
| Q2 2005 |
First prototypes manufactured and debugged |
| August 2005 |
Website launched in English and Russian |
| September 2005 |
QX-10 platform launched at Entertainment Industry Exhibition, Kiev |
| October 2005 |
First shipments of development kits to customers |
| December 2005 |
Exhibited at EELEX exhibition, Moscow |
| Oxygen Software Development Suite launched, complete with support for numerous industry standards |
| January 2006 |
Exhibited at ICE, London |
| Formation of Quixant Asia Limited |
| February 2006 |
Quixant awarded Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner status |
Strategic Partners
- AMD: Provider of high performance, low-power CPUs used on the QX-10
- SiS: Provider of embedded core logic solutions, used on the QX-10
- ATI: Provider of the advanced video controllers used on the QX-10
- Actel: Designers of ultra-high security FPGA devices forming a key part of the TotalEncryption™ technology
- Microsoft: Quixant are a member of the Windows Embedded Partners Programme
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