Via Details Credit Card-Sized Motherboard

April 23rd 2007 | CPUs & Chipsets

Taiwan’s Via Technologies Inc. has released details of its upcoming Pico-ITX motherboard, which is roughly the same size as a credit card and opens the door to very small PC designs.

Measuring just 10 centimeters (cm) by 7.2 cm, the Pico ITX is designed for Via’s C-7 and Eden microprocessor families, and uses chipsets like Via’s VX700, which packs the memory controller, integrated graphics, and I/O hub into a single chip instead of two. The motherboard has a single memory slot that can hold up to 1G byte of DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory.

Via hasn’t announced precisely when the new boards will be available, but said it plans to release its first Pico-ITX product "shortly." In the meantime, Via has published a detailed overview of the motherboard’s specifications, hoping to win device makers over to the new motherboard form factor.

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Via Details Credit Card-Sized Motherboard
Published in: CPUs & Chipsets on 2007-04-23