Playing on its strength of manufacturing low-power x86 CPUs, Pico-ITX is smaller than the Nano-ITX form factor it has been pushing over the last year or so, which itself is smaller than the Mini-ITX form factor that has become popular amongst modding enthusiasts and those building embedded machines.

The Via motherboard, dubbed the VT6047 reference board, is a mere 72mmx100mm, making it barely bigger than a credit card. Forget the online digital wallet, this could make your wallet digital!

The board has outputs for network and VGA, with graphics delivered by the UniChrome built-in graphics. The main CPU socket is compatible with either the Via C7 or Eden chips up to 1.5GHz. Audio is provided by Via's Vinyl Audio code, with a pin header provided for wiring up physical sockets. A single SATA port and single IDE port provide the I/O capabitilies, whilst a single SO-DIMM socket supports up to 1GB of DDR2-533.

Providing Via can put this out at a decent price point - no word on that yet - this could become an awesome device that could push forward a new range of UMPC devices. Any takers? µ