Next generation Intel® low-power "Apollo Lake"  processors and their benefits

congatec supports the new low-power Intel® Atom™, Celeron® and Pentium® processors (Codename Apollo Lake) on six different form factors: Mini-ITX motherboards and Pico-ITX single board computers as well as COM Express Compact, COM Express Mini, Qseven and – this is really new – SMARC 2.0 Computer-on-Modules. What makes this processor so attractive for design-in on so many different form factors?