Accelerate Development: Flexible, Application-Specific Profiles Solve the Build vs. Buy Dilemma. Kontron’s high-performance COBALT™ family gives developers a fully tested, cost-effective design path allowing them to meet expanding system requirements while accelerating the development to deployment schedule. COBALT™ effectively solves the build vs. buy dilemma by providing a modular building block solution with the integration of established system profiles. Its upgradable processors provide a forever young solution, and COBALT’s system profile options greatly simplify the design process.