Moore's Law for Motherboards

An anonymous reader writes "VIA CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the 'world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence,' at Computex this week. The mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches. It's half the size of pico-ITX, which was half the size of nano-ITX, which, in turn, was half-the size of mini-ITX — which was already small. It's not clear whether VIA will make these tiny motherboards available to end users, or if they will only be sold directly to device makers, but generally all of VIA's tiny motherboard formats have spread around to other suppliers and become widely available."

Comments

Cool

[KnowledgeKeeper]

I can't wait. Now I can finally make a powerful wearable computer. Now just to find someone who makes LCDs that look like glasses for a reasonable sum of money and I'm off to a wonderland :)

Re:while it's cool

[drinkypoo]

VIA processors are not known for their serious ALU performance. Granted it's cool that it has ram, but the processor sucks.

What the processor doesn't suck is power. Low power consumption FTW!

What about flash storage?

It must have some, but they haven't figured out how much. But you're right, if it doesn't have a slot, it's pointless.

And there still isn't power, a battery or AC adapter would add to the size don't you think?

Has a DC-DC power supply, so luckily, all it needs is the battery. Batteries are getting pretty small these days.

I mean my computer is no bigger than an a couple inches square. That is if you disregard the mobo, memory, PSU, case, disk drives, etc...

This IS the mobo, memory, and psu. It probably has onboard flash, and if it doesn't already, it will almost certainly have some type of SD slot.