SIS shows off her Little Valley

THERE IS ONE board that gets little or no attention called Little Valley, but will probably outsell the rest of Intel's lineup. We told you a little about it here, and now we can fill in a little more of the details.

It is a low cost board, Mario saw his for $70 at Frys, and that is with the CPU included, the Celeron 1.2 is soldered down. There are two SKUs, the D201GLY and D201GLY2, the 2 having USB ports.

All have a SIS 662 + 964L chipset, cynically blanked out in the Intel literature (grow a pair guys....), a single memory slot and a single PCI slot. The CPU has a 19W TDP, and the power budget for the board is around 31W allowing for passive cooling, but this particular one is active.

It has bundled software, is aimed at developing markets like Russia, China and Texas where money and infrastructure is in short supply, and is basically a complete system minus ram and HD. It also has the ability to boot off flash or those who want the real cheap way out.

I think this will be a good solution for third wor.... emerging markets. It is small, fairly efficient, and affordable. It could be Intel's biggest seller in short order.µ