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Via launches HD expansion board
MINI MOBO AND CHIP MAKER VIA has announced a modular expansion board which adds Hi Def video I/O capabilities to its Pico-ITXe boards mainly used in embedded systems.
The stackable board is the first to use Via's Sumit (Stackable Unified Module Interconnect Technology... arghhh!) connection spec which hooks up to SATA, USB 2 and PCI Express buses with very little fuss.
The board has a 1GHz C7 main processor, a VX800 media system processor ans supports Chrome9 IGP, DX9 graphics and hardware acceleration for MPEG-2/4, WMV9 and VC1 codecs all dfor a TDP of less than eight watts.
You can stack the card up with up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM and there are pin headers for gigabit ethernet, VGA video and LVDS. µ
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there were nano-ITX and pico-ITX boards that were actually affordable. I understand they're a niche product, but they'd be far better as a mainstream product for DIY computing projects - possibly even the dawn of true DIY laptops, if some makers did standardised chassis for those form-factors.
its my understanding that there is a project that aims to create an open laptop design. You would just need to built yourself, but all the specs are open.