SUMMARY: When you think of Small Form Factor the first company you probably think of is Shuttle. Though, VIA Technology is another company up the top of the pack leading the new frontier with their EPIA Mini-ITX series.
Without a doubt, the PC market is one that has an average product life of around 6 months, and even within those 6 months, a lot of changes take place. We have seen PC’s go from monster full towers, the modified Midi towers all the way down to the SFF PC’s from Shuttle. Today, SFF and super small PC’s are the way of the future, and at this time, it doesn’t seem to be weakening in strength.
Shuttle would have to be the mother of invention, with making SFF one of its biggest pushes there has been new contenders like IWILL and various new micro PC’s coming out from now many different manufacturers, but one company had started out producing even smaller components for the extreme micro systems, that being VIA Technology.
Ever since the introduction of the VPSD department, VIA has put its technological expertise in cost effective production methods to the test and with a push on SFF, the EPIA series were born.
EPIA is VIA’s Mini-ITX based motherboard platform using either the Eden series CPU or VIA C3 CPU’s on a board on measuring no more than 215x191mm making it the world’s smallest all-in-one motherboard. We have VIA’s latest EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard here today, let’s see just what it is capable of.
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