Purpose built systems are specialized computers designed to serve a specific application. Examples of purpose-built applications include computers for digital signage, robots, mobile vehicle applications, gaming, POS (Point of Sale), video surveillance, smart devices, and wearables to name a few. Additionally, IoT devices are appearing in almost every industry such as healthcare, agriculture, government, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and logistics. In many cases these applications are too critical to just use any off-the-shelf SSD. The risk of using off-the-shelf SSDs is they do not offer the customer any control over changing BOMs, product changes mid-production cycle, EOL (end-of-life) notifications and little to no visibility of upcoming product transitions.

