I woke up this morning to find an e-mail in my inbox containing pictures of something promising to shrink the size of my UMPC. Fortunately, I didn't have to dredge the e-mail out of the spam trap, because it was talking about the world's smallest x86 platform, the VIA Mobile-ITX.

Take a look at the big chip with the VIA logo in the middle, that's the VIA VX700 chipset, a combined northbridge and southbridge which handles all the memory, graphics, & storage. The little black chip to the right of that that says C7-S is actually a miniaturized version of the same C7-M found in popular UMPCs like the OQO model 02 or the Samsung Q1B. The one in this photo is a 1.0GHz chip with a 400MHz front side bus.

I won't pretend to know how VIA's engineers have managed to shrink their current UMPC platform so much, all I can do is marvel at the feat. Looking at this tiny motherboard I can just imagine all the tiny little UMPCs we'll be seeing at this time next year.

Take a look at a few more pictures after the jump and then check out the Mobile-ITX Gallery.

Visitor

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

i want one of them.
I would put it in a hat,
dont ask why.
Its just where i'd put it.

Price tag?
i dont want to know...

Visitor

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Where can I buy that?

Visitor

Friday, 22 January 2010

Does anyone actually know where to buy a Mobile-ITX board?

Visitor

Friday, 12 March 2010

I thinks its a bed time story, nobody knows where to buy it

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