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Friday Jun 19, 2009
Portwell has announced the NANO-8045 and NANO-8050 embedded Nano-ITX motherboards.
The NANO-8045 Nano-ITX board features either Intel AtomZ530 (1.6GHz) and the Z510 (1.1GHz) CPUs, with a power consumption under 10W. It supports a maximum of 2 GB RAM (SODIMM), DVI and 24-bit LVDS, Gigabit Ethernnet.
“The NANO-8045 is specifically designed to operate at a very low power consumption (less than 10 watts at full loading) and low heat,” says Jack Lam, American Portwell Technology’’s senior product marketing manager, “so it can be a truly fanless and battery operated configuration that supports multiple storage devices.”
The NANO-8050 Nano-ITX board supports Intel Celeron® M/ULV Core 2 Duo processors with GS45 Express chipset. It supports a maximum of 2 GB RAM (SODIMM),VGA and 24-bit LVDS, Gigabit Ethernnet, PCIe x1.
“The new ultra low voltage NANO-8050 is a second generation Nano-ITX board that underscores Portwell’s continuing commitment to producing superior small form factor embedded system boards,” says Frank Shen, American Portwell Technology’s product marketing director. “It features Intel GS45 Express chipset integrated with a built-in GMA 4500MHD graphic engine to provide excellent 3D graphics performance and supports Intel Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Core™ 2 Duo and Celeron® M processors.”
NANO-8045 Specifications:
- CPU: Intel Atom Z530 (1.6GHz) or Z510 (1.1GHz)
- Chipset: Intel Poulsbo chipset US15W
- RAM: 1 x 200-pin SO-DIMM socket, 2 GB DDR2 533/400 RAM max.
- Storage: 1 x 44 pin IDE, 2 x SATA II ports, 1 x CF
- Display: 1 x internal 24-bit LVDS; 1 x DVI-D connector
- Audio: 1x Line out; 1x Mic-in
- LAN: 1 x gigabit Ethernet
- I/O: 6 x USB 2.0 (2 x external, 4 x internal), 1 x Seria, 1 x GPIO
NANO-8050 Specifications:
- CPU: ULV Mobile SFF Core 2 Duo/Celeron M processor
- Chipset: Intel GS45 SFF + ICH9M SFF
- RAM: 1 x 200-pin SODIMM, up to 4 GB of DDR2 800/667 RAM
- Storage: 2 x SATA ports, 1 x CF socket
- Expansion slot: 1 x PCIe x1 slot
- Video: integrated GMA 4500 MHD graphics, 1 x VGA output, LVDS connectors
- Audio: mic-in, line-out
- LAN: 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
- I/O: 6 x USB 2.0 ports (4 x external, 2 x internal), 1 x Serial, 8-bit digital I/O interface
Read the press release here.
Read the NANO-8045 product specifications here.
Read the NANO-8050 product specifications here.
Technorati Tags: dvi, GS45, mini motherboard, nano, nano-itx, portwell, ULV Core 2 Duo, us15w, Z510, Z530
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Monday May 4, 2009
VIA has announced the VB8002 Mini-ITX motherboard.
This Mini-ITX board uses the VIA Nano processor combined with the VIA CX700M2 media system processor. It is targeted at media server solutions, with DVI, S-Video, component, and composite output, and optical and coaxial S/PDIF ouput.
With an onboard digital HDTV encoder for high-definition video resolutions, VIA Vinyl 7.1 channel HD audio for a rich audio experience and a range of consumer I/O options including composite and component RCA ports, DVI and S-Video ports, S/PDIF audio, and onboard connectors for LVDS and TV out, the VIA VB8002 is well equipped for today’s digital media applications.
VB8002 Specifications:
- CPU: VIA Nano processor (1.6GHz)
- Chipset: VIA CX700M2 Unified Digital Media IGP chipset
- RAM: 1 x 240-pin DIMM, up to 1 GB of DDR2 533/667 RAM
- Storage: 2 x SATA ports, 1 x IDE port
- Expansion slot: 1 x PCI slot
- Video: integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II integrated graphics, 1 x VGA output, DVI output, S-Video output, component output, composite output, LVDS connector, TV-out header
- Audio: VIA VT1708A 7.1 HD Audio with S/PDIF output (coaxial and optical)
- LAN: 1 x VIA VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet
- I/O: 6 x USB 2.0 ports (2 x external, 4 x internal), PS/2 header
Product page here.
Read the press release here.
Technorati Tags: Component, CX700M2, dvi, mini motherboard, mini-itx, nano, S-Video, VIA
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Tuesday Oct 28, 2008
VIA Technologies has announced it will be demonstrating the VIA VB8001 Mini-ITX motherboard this week at the Embedded Systems Conference, Boston, MA.
The VIA VB8001 is the first board based on the VIA Nano processor.
This mini motherboard supports up to 4GB of RAM, and features Gigabit Ethernet, 2 SATA ports and a PCIe x16 slot.
VB8001 Specifications:
- CPU: VIA Nano CPU (1.6GHz)
- Chipset: VIA CN896 + VT8237S
- RAM: 2x 240-pin DIMM socket, up to 4GB of DDR2 533/667 RAM
- Storage: 1x IDE, 2x SATA II ports
- Expansion slots: 1x PCIe x16 slot, 1x mini-PCI slot
- Display: Integrated VIA Chrome9™ HC graphics, 1x VGA
- Audio: VIA VT1708A HD audio
- LAN: 1x VIA VT6130 Gigabit Ethernet port
- I/O: 8x USB ports (2x external, 6x internal), 2x Serial ports (1x external, 1x internal)
Read the full press release here.
Technorati Tags: CN896, mini motherboard, mini-itx, nano, VIA
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Tuesday Oct 14, 2008
VIA has issued a news release highlighting the cryptographic performance of the Nano processor:
The benchmarking of the 1.3GHz VIA Nano processor using SiSoftware’s newest release of the SiSoftware Sandra 2009 diagnostic utility showed the VIA Nano processor performing the cryptographic tests at a blazing 765MB/s of bandwidth, over 93% faster than a 3.2GHz Intel® Core™2 Quad QX9770 processor, yet using a mere 5% of the power.
The Nano processor has indeed hardware units for encryption, allowing for to be more efficient for cryptographic operations. From the architecture brief:
VIA Isaiah Architecture processors contain very high-performance hardware for AES encryption, SHA-1 and SHA-256 secure hashing, and random number generation. In addition, the VIA Isaiah Architecture contains some new (and unique to VIA) features for a very specialized “secure execution mode”. These include a secure on-chip memory area, encrypted instruction fetching, and more.
If this appears to be top performance for cryptography, general performance of the processor needs to be considered depending of its indented use.
Full news release here.
Technorati Tags: mini motherboard, nano, VIA
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Friday Oct 3, 2008
Tom’s Hardware has posted a comparison of 3 low-power platforms: AMD Athlon 64 2000+ CPU on Gigabyte MA78GM micro-ATX motherboard, Intel Atom 230 on ECS 945GCT-D mini-DTX motherboard and VIA Nano L2100 on VIA EPIA-SN mini-ITX motherboard.
We found it amazing to see all three competitors doing a good job when it comes to offering low-power systems, although the approaches are fundamentally different. AMD has its efficient 780G mainstream system with integrated graphics, which we equipped with a low-power Athlon 64 2000+ model at 8 W TDP. Intel’s Atom platform is based on an ECS motherboard using the 945G chipset that isn’t really a low-power product. But the Atom 230 processor requires so little power that it still hits the same 28 W idle power level as AMD and VIA’s devices do.
VIA clearly offers the best processor performance with its new Nano nano L2100 CPU on the EPIA-SN mini-ITX motherboards, but the processing performance comes at a price—its peak power is significantly higher than the peak powers of the AMD and Intel systems.
Read the full article here.
Technorati Tags: 780g, 945gc, athlon, atom, mini motherboard, mini-dtx, mini-itx, nano
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