VIA’s First Em-ITX Motherboard Detailed
VIA has claimed to showcase its first Em-ITX motherboard at ESC Silicon Valley 2009.
Designed for ultra-slim embedded PCs, VIA Em-ITX board measures 170*120mm, 30% more compact than Mini-ITX motherboards of 170*170mm. Known as EITX-3000, this Em-ITX motherboard is specially designed for fanless implementations in a wide range of temperatures, and powered by a choice of the latest 1.0GHz or 1.3GHz VIA Nano processor and VIA VX800 media system processor, supporting up to 2GB of compact DDR2 SO-DIMM system memory.
The VIA VX800 media system processor takes advantage of the integrated VIA Chrome9 HC3 DirectX 9.0c compliant graphics and video controller, which includes MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and WMV9 hardware decoding acceleration for smooth media playback across multiple displays.
VIA Em-ITX motherboard is expected to be available in early May.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Instead of those four (useless) serial ports, wouldn’t it be better to equip it with 2 more USB ports and a DVI out /HDMI slot?
I don’t even use those serial ports anymore (disable them in the BIOS).
I’m sure there are a lot of other ports (like Esata or firewire) that could find a better place in current technology mobo’s.
If there has to be a serial port, let it be a single port, but not four!
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 pm
same can be said about the double parallel port!