AMD Aims At New Standard for Motherboards

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 12, 2007 @08:43AM from the little-quite-different dept.

alexwcovington writes "CBC reports that AMD is launching DTX, a new motherboard layout about the size of micro-ATX. Their goal is to provide a small, energy efficient board that's compatible with as much hardware as possible. In the DTX, they're hoping to produce a new standard for desktops, and somewhat reverse the decline in consumer interest. From the article: 'Most desktops still have motherboards that operate using a standard laid out in 1995 by Intel called ATX, which stands for Advanced Technology Extended. ATX was designed to allow everything from memory cards to mouse ports to have a standardized spot alongside the central processing unit on a typical desktop motherboard. While there have been other standards since, ATX remains the most common standard for desktops, though its design is not suited for smaller, more energy-efficient desktops, AMD said.' Ars Technica has further details on the board."

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The obvious non-Linux question... by __aaclcg7560 · 2007-01-12 09:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Does it run Windows Vista? Or is that extra?
Re:comments by LandKurt · 2007-01-12 09:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You forgot:

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.