VIA adds new references to the range of reduced size motherboards for PCs and will release soon the Pico-ITX platform with the introduction of the EPIA PX motherboard. It features a C7 processor clocked at 1 GHz and a CX700M(2) or VX700 chipset. The Taiwanese manufacturer has succeeded in reducing the motherboard dimensions to 10cm x 7,2cm or 72cm². This is two times less than a Nano-ITX motherboard.
To succeed in this operation, the number of connectors has been drastically reduced and the card only has one DDR2 SO-DIMM slot. On the connectivity side, only the LAN and VGA ports are directly present and the other ones have been moved to the tower.
If the performances of this configuration are modest and insufficient to run Windows Vista other than in slideshow and that the architecture is quite old, at least VIA continues to innovate in specific areas.
