Via goes supersmall with motherboard
Published: 22 Mar 2004 10:35 GMT
Via Technologies has begun selling a new supersmall motherboard that's just 4.8 inches square and comes with an x86 chip compatible with Intel's Pentium processor.
Via's Epia N-Series Nano-ITX is based on the Eden-N processor running at speeds of up to 1GHz, the Taiwanese company announced on Friday at the CeBIT computer show in Hannover, Germany.
Via showed the Nano-ITX at the Computex trade show in Taiwan in 2003, saying it was geared for embedded computing applications rather than standard PCs.
Intel aims its XScale processors -- competing chips that are not compatible with Pentium -- at embedded computing tasks such as handheld computers, but Via believes the software compatibility of x86 chips will give them an edge.
Via also announced that a retailer called Mini-ITX.com has signed on as a customer. The retailer will begin selling in the second quarter of 2004 a digital entertainment device called Nanode that uses the tiny motherboard, Mini-ITX.com said.
The Nanode has video and audio outputs, USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors, and ports for Ethernet and a keyboard.
The Nanode was designed by UK-based Hoojum Design.
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