Re: Newest VIA systemboard standard, Pico-ITX

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Close, there's these 3.5" boards. They've been around forever with all sorts
of processors, ever since at least Socket 370 days. Here's some links:
http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-6612-datasheet_07112006.pdf
 http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-LX_03292006-2.pdf
 http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFERMARK-0315.pdf
 http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-9371A.pdf
These boards are about 145x102mm where as the Pico is 100x72mm.

I'm excited about the Pico. Now the size of VIA's boards are getting so
small the connectors are becoming an obstacle for reducing size. Eventually,
if they can squeeze any more space out, we'll just see pins and cables...
I really don't care about the price as they keep it around 300. Some
embedded boards cost well over 500USD.

On 4/24/07, Bear Naff <> wrote:
>
> Is there a geode board this small with as full a range of connectors on
> it?
>
> On 4/23/07, DLP <> wrote:
> >
> > Remember the AMD Geode boards of similar size and price? Atleast we get
> > a higher performance processor and more power saving stuff. These boards are
> > starting to get very wearable. Regarding the heatsink, it seems like the
> > picture of a Pico-ITX in the wild does indeed have most of it's PCB covered
> > by an aluminum heatsink. That's ok. I plan on turning the case of my
> > wearable into the heatsink. Check the front of mini-itx.com for more
> > about this standard.
> >
> > On 4/23/07, Bear Naff < > wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=1206
> > >
> > >
> > > Looks to be a little smaller than the Nano-ITX form factor, and like
> > > the nano, it will probably be 99% heatsink and $400 when a model comes to
> > > market, but it is a full X86 mainboard with VGA out.
> > >
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Close, there's these 3.5" boards. They've been around forever with all sorts of processors, ever since at least Socket 370 days. Here's some links: <br><a href="http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-6612-datasheet_07112006.pdf">
http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-6612-datasheet_07112006.pdf</a><br> <a href="http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-LX_03292006-2.pdf">http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-LX_03292006-2.pdf</a><br> <a href="http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFERMARK-0315.pdf">
http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFERMARK-0315.pdf</a><br> <a href="http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-9371A.pdf">http://www.digitaltechinc.com/WAFER-9371A.pdf</a><br>These boards are about 145x102mm where as the Pico is 100x72mm.
<br><br>I'm excited about the Pico. Now the size of VIA's boards are getting so small the connectors are becoming an obstacle for reducing size. Eventually, if they can squeeze any more space out, we'll just see pins and cables...
<br>I really don't care about the price as they keep it around 300. Some embedded boards cost well over 500USD.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bear Naff</b> <<a href="mailto:">
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is there a geode board this small with as full a range of connectors on it?
<div><span class="e" id="q_1122497e5fa81afe_1"><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DLP</b> <<a href="mailto:" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"></a>
> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Remember the AMD Geode boards of similar size and price? Atleast we get a higher performance processor and more power saving stuff. These boards are starting to get very wearable. Regarding the heatsink, it seems like the picture of a Pico-ITX in the wild does indeed have most of it's PCB covered by an aluminum heatsink. That's ok. I plan on turning the case of my wearable into the heatsink. Check the front of 
<a href="http://mini-itx.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mini-itx.com</a> for more about this standard.<br><br>
<div><span><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bear Naff</b> <<a href="mailto:" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> 
</a>> wrote:</span></span> 
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span>
<div><a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=1206" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=1206
</a></div>
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