Photos: Five years of Mini-ITX mods
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As it hits a milestone, a look back at some of creative places modders have found for the tiny motherboard. Think accordians and waffle irons.
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Review Just as ATI's X800 XT PE ships, along comes the next board
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And re-introduces the single-CPU Power Mac G5
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October unveiling alongside AMD dualie Athlon 64 FX
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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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Chips have become so tiny that atomic-level defects cause serious problems.
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By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 12--When Intel built its first "tera-scale" computer, capable of  handling a trillion calculations per second, the machine was the size of a  middle-class home.   That was 1996.
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Here's a glimpse at just a few of the products and projects Linux Journal editors are buzzing about this month:  Zonbu PC 1.0 (upgrade) read more
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A Scottish engineer has figured out how to tame microscopic wires, making it easier to build smaller microprocessors, which will eventually lead to smaller supercomputers.
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The Tungsten T5 and the Axim X50v provide impressive extras for PDA fans who want more.
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First chips 'on track' for 2005 debut, apparently
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The motherboard's components are changing, but the chipset will survive integration with CPU.
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Blog: Everyone's favorite whipping boy, Intel's Itanium server processor, is still on the road map well into the next decade.
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New Mobile ITX board measures just 7.5 centimeters by 4.5 cm and uses Via's C7 processor.
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Mother of all mods? You've got to admire Ivan Cover's soldering ability if not his ability to work out how and then cram no fewer than eight extra components into his Asus Eee PC.â¦
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Highlights of this year's Intel Developer forum included new 45nm Penryn and Nehalem CPUs, upcoming server and enthusisat motherboards, $200 laptops, and a talk with Gordon Moore. Here's what it all looked like.
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A tiny, fully functional, 70-megabit static random access memory computer chip crammed with more than 500 million transistors has been developed by researchers at Intel Corp.