Company VIA Technologies has announced an interesting development – a new form factor motherboards. It will be called Em-ITX, but its principal difference from the other – more than modest size. Motherboards newest form factor smaller than Mini-ITX – and, as appropriate, perfectly suited for portable devaysov.

Form Factor VIA Em-ITX will set a new standard for ultra-devices – which is an open standard. Charges standard Em-ITX at the 30% compact Mini-ITX, but they have great potential I / O: the size of 12 × 17 cm ports in Em-ITX twice.

Technical scheme payment form factor Em-ITX and expansion modules

According to the VIA, embedded board standard Em-ITX may find wide application in industrial automation, digital identification, digital kiosks and other areas where the use of ultrathin embedded devices. Developed by VIA specification form factor Em-ITX include «double kit» I / O devices: the ports are located on both long (17 cm) sides of the card. As the number of ports includes: COM (RS-232/422/485), RJ45, DVI, VGA, LVDS, USB 2.0 and power connector from the DC. In a tire expansion Em-IO board in the standard Em-ITX integrated interface USB 2.0, GPIO, LPC, PCIe, IDE, IEEE 1394, SATA, PCI, DVI, HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet and Card Bus.

The first products based on the new form factor Em-ITX come to market as early as next month.

One of the leaders of NVIDIA, namely – Chern-Hsun Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang), president and CEO of, said the media that he was in this year NVIDIA will release a platform Ion (Ion 2), which will support the Nano processor from VIA Technologies. The platform is already in development, Huang stressed.

Two companies – VIA and NVIDIA – to discuss cooperation since the beginning of 2008, as another leader otmteil NVIDIA, Drew Henry (Drew Henry), recently reported on joint work with VIA Technologies to develop an inexpensive platform for the PC. Henry stressed that the first PCs based on the Ion and the processor Intel Atom nettop will cost $ 299, which will be released until June of this year. A chipset Nano / GeForce 9400 NVIDIA and VIA company demonstrated last year at Computex 2008.