Thursday, September 29, 2011

VIA has introduced energy-efficient motherboard form factor Mini-ITX



, VIA officially announced a new motherboard form factor mini-ITX, which was a commercial name EPIA-M720. Novelty is an update to the platform EPIA-LN, retains most of the features of its predecessor, but includes support for DDR3 memory and SATA II.The key feature of new built-in video decoder should be noted ChromotionHD 2.0, which ensures smooth HD video playback up to Full HD resolution of 1080p. Video Decoder supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV-HD, VC-1 and H.264. The platform also provides for installation of two SATA-drives with the SATA ports 3 Gb / sec.The description also identifies eight ports USB 2.0, HDMI and COM, as well as 32-bit slot PCI. Motherboard EPIA-M720 is based on the basis of a single-core VIA C7 processor with 1 GHz. Processor VIA C7-M is based on technology-based VIA CoolStream and built to the manufacturing process of 90-nm SOI, which allows him almost no heat. According to the manufacturer, the new focus on the use of POS-terminals, kiosks, ATMs and digital signage. Unfortunately, the cost of the motherboard VIA EPIA-M720 is currently not known, but judging by the functionality of the board, it belongs to the low price category.

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