Via unveils first pico-ITX design

Chip-maker Via Technologies has revealed details about its “pico-ITX” hardware reference design, and promised to announce its first commercially available mainboard based on the new form-factor “soon.” Slightly smaller than the venerable PC/104 standard, pico-ITX represents “the smallest complete x86 mainboard in the industry,” Via said.

Measuring 3.9 x 2.8 inches (10cm x 7.2cm), pico-ITX boards have half the surface area of nano-ITX boards, and a quarter that of boards based on the now 5-year-old mini-ITX standard. The miniaturization is enabled in part by an 82 percent real estate reduction of Via’s chipsets, which have shrunk from 50 x 50mm in mini-ITX’s original “Socket 370″ processors to just 21 x 21mm for the “nanoBGA” package used in Via’s current C7 product family.

reports LinuxDevices

April 24, 2007 | Filed Under Hardware 

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