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The Incredible Shrinking Motherboard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-so-cute dept.

DrGonzo was among several who submitted news of the new Mini Motherboard from via. The Mini ITX standard is just 170mm squared, and this motherboard has audio, ether, IDE, video and tv out. Not bad for something so tiny. Here's an article about the small wonder.

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  1. The site: by llamalicious · · Score: 5, Informative

    is coming down hard... (offer up temporary local mirrors for subscribers and I might bite, it'd also sit well with the people who get taken out from a /.ing)

    link to google's cached version

    and the text from from theregus.com:

    VIA Technologies is expected to launch a very small format motherboard this month. Called the mini-ITX, the fully integrated mobo measures up at 170mm x170mm (yes, it's square), making 50 per cent smaller than the FlexATX form factor, VIA claims.

    The Mini-ITX is supplied with an 800MHz Eden x.86 C3 processor (in EBGA packaging), incorporating 128K L1 and 64K L2 cache; integrated AGP2 graphics 2X; PC100/133 SDRAM support etc. You can check out more spec here.

    The board will retail for around $100, and gets its first mainstream outing at CeBIT this week.

    The Mini ITX is targeted at the embedded market - expect most units to disappear into printer routers and the like; but VIA is also reporting 'grassroots interest' in the product from home PC and commercial system builders.

    The Mini-ITX may be small, but it is not 40 per cent smaller than any other form factor around, as VIA believes. The Danish firm, maker of the M-Series PC, deploys a 157mm x146mm mobo. ®

  2. It's stronger than me... by juliao · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry if I have to point it out, but...
    170 mm * 170 mm is NOT 170 mm^2
    This motherboard is 28900 mm^2, or 289 cm^2.
    Still a nice little board, at that :)

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