Via CEO promises even smaller motherboards
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InfoWorld - Via Technologies plans to develop PC motherboards that are even smaller than the&#160;business card-sized Mobile ITX product&#160;it announced on Tuesday.
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Look for more consumer electronics products and services from the PC behemoth. Also: SuSE Linux for Dell servers.
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(InfoWorld) - Taiwan's Via TechnologiesÂ has a knack for making motherboards smaller, and its latest design pushes the boundary of what's possible further than ever before. Called Mobile ITX, the new motherboard measures 7.5 centimeters by 4.5 cm -- roughly the same size as a namecard -- and includes all of the components required by a computer, including a Via C7 processor, a chip set with integrated graphics and video capabilities, and memory. The new motherboard design, which should hit markets next year, will make possible a range of small, powerful computers, such as "super smartphones," said Richard Brown, Via's president of corporate marketing, in an interview. Key to the motherboard's success is theÂ C7 processor. Brown didn't specify which version the board will use, but said the chip consumes 0.25 watts of power or less when running. "And that's not when the system is idling," he said. Via CEO Wenchi Chen plans to announce the new motherboard design on Wednesday at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. While Via is much smaller than Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, the company has a proven ability to spot where industry trends are headed before larger companies catch on. For example, Via was pushing the idea of low-power computing, and performance per watt as an important measure, at a time when Intel and AMD were still focused on clock speeds. In the motherboard space, Via was the developer ofÂ Mini-ITX, a small form factor that measures 17 cm by 17 cm. In recent years, Mini-ITX has become an informal standard. Boards based on the same dimensions are now used with chips from AMD and Intel.
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Company's S3000PT is half the size of a regular server motherboard, letting two fit inside a small rack-mounted machine.
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Upcomimg C7 chips will run at higher speeds, but consumer less power.
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Chip-making technique to fuel AMD64, PowerPC, 'Cell' production
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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Hands on with Via's new Artigo DIY PC kit, based on the credit-card-size Pico-ITX motherboard form factor.
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The chipmaker appears to have met its most recent deadline for production of the smaller-featured chips.
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The motherboard's components are changing, but the chipset will survive integration with CPU.
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Massively parallel processor to 'change the world', apparently
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In an effort to help enterprise users get a handle on power and heat issues associated with new server designs that pack more processing punch in smaller spaces, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that systems built with its 32/64-bit Opteron
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Desktop features BTX motherboard for improved airflow.
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Intel Corp  said on  Tuesday it would be able to mass-produce computer processors  with features one-third smaller than the current cutting edge  within two years, placing it well at the front of the  semiconductor industry.
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Upcoming chip set will support 802.11a, b, and g networks.
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When it comes to chips, Intel believes in the old clichÃ© that you can&#39;t be too thin. The world&#39;s leading chipmaker is pushing the semiconductor manufacturing envelope by shrinking the size
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Moore's Law continues to mandate that the transitor must be shrunken. But as Intel CEO Paul Otellini admitted tonight at CES, had it not been for a key innovation, Mr. Moore might have found himself out-lawed.