Via mobo is smaller than a business card
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You may notice that the entire mobo is dwarfed by a dollar bill, it is actually marginally smaller than my business card. Interestingly, the big chip in the center is not the CPU, that is the northbridge, the CPU is the little one immediately to it’s left.
VIA HAS TWO interrelated items here that put the ‘wow’ back in computing. One is a mobo, the other is a laptop based on it, and both are really small.
The first one is the new Via Mobile ITX form factor motherboard. It is actually smaller than a business card, and runs a 1GHz C7M CPU. It will comfortably run XP all day long with the CPU pulling 3.5W worst case, but about .25W idling. The northbridge adds about another 3.5.
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