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Via shrinks boards even further
VIA TECHNOLOGIES has taken the wraps off its smallest PC board form factor yet, the Mobile-ITX, which is 50 per cent smaller than its predecessor the Pico-ITX.
Running with the growing trend toward mobile devices, Via developed the Mobile-ITX open form factor specification for ultra-compact and portable embedded devices.
The 6cm x 6cm computer-on-module specification bundles in a core CPU, chipset and memory functionality and I/O that includes the CRT, DVP and TTL display support, HD Audio, IDE and USB 2.0, as well as PCI Express, SMBus, GPIO, LPC, SDIO and PS2 signals, through customisable baseboards.
According to Via, Mobile-ITX-based systems consume as little as five Watts and are a modularised design split between a CPU module card and an I/O carrier board.
"With Mobile-ITX we have again pushed back the barriers that limit just how small an embedded industrial PC can be," said Daniel Wu, vice president of the Embedded Platform Division at Via.
"Mobile-ITX enables the creation of a new breed of ultra-compact, portable networked devices suitable for a range of applications, particularly in modern medical and military segments."
Full details can be found in Via's 'Mobile-ITX Form Factor' (PDF) white paper. The company expects to start shipping the Mobile-ITX modules commercially, early next year. µ
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They should partner/do another AMD chipset and in exchange AMD should help theme to improve the Micro mobos - VIA please make chipset but without the data corruption that was SO notorious back in D days - My KT266A Still works!!!! Even My 8KHA+ still works but my Thunderbird is too Slowwwwww lol
"I had a Via Epia M6000. Low power, silent, but unable to play MPEG2 files on a TV in Linux, despite all VIA's code-dumps of poorly thought-out, half-hearted hacks of Xine."
What player were you using? And what distro?
Because the majority open source players are horrible when it comes to CPU usage.
No DVXA support or any other smart usage of the GPU's capabilities (except the very basic stuff). Just dump all the load on the CPU. *sigh*
The funny thing is that these open source players actually do better in Windows, thanks to the DirectX and the other Windows APIs that allow for easy GPU acceleration... Unlike Xorg. *sighs again*
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Anyway, nice board. I don't think the seperate I/O card is a bad thing. Quite the contrary. The major customers for such boards are the netbook manufacturers and the like, so it's makes sense to allow them to make their own I/O card to better suit their design, rather than limiting them on your own generic I/O card. So again, nice board
They are double jointed, I also am double jointed in both thumbs and fingers, copy and paste this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4LaJyZAII
Yer right, they could at least have gotten one of their wives (mistress, hooker?) to do the "hand job", or at least get a "hand" model dude.
ugly hand!
VIA like to lead in this one area, but their boards are so damn expensive for what you get that even though I've wanted a Mini-ITX for years, I've only just got one.
I went with an ION based board.
More specifically, the Zotac 9300 + a downclocked, undervolted E3300.
I look forward to assembling it tonight.
If you actually want to connect anything to it you need to connect it to a huge IO board?!
How is this an improvement on their existing 10cm x 7cm PICO-ITX which actually has standard IO connectors on the board.
I had a Via Epia M6000. Low power, silent, but unable to play MPEG2 files on a TV in Linux, despite all VIA's code-dumps of poorly thought-out, half-hearted hacks of Xine.
grrrr.
but will it run crysis?