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Chip maker VIA Technologies, announced the VIA VT6047 Pico-ITX form factor reference design, the smallest full-featured x86 motherboard in the industry designed for a new world of ultra compact embedded Personal Computer (PC) systems and appliances.

The Pico-ITX form factor is the latest advance in VIA's proven record on platform miniaturization. The Mini-ITX motherboard, at 17cm x 17cm, which recently celebrated its 5th anniversary as an industry standard form factor with wide market adoption, was followed by the Nano-ITX form factor at 12cm x 12cm, exactly 50 percent of the size of the Mini-ITX. Now, the Pico-ITX, at 10cm x 7.2cm and 50 percent of the size of the Nano-ITX form factor, truly embodies VIA's "Small is Beautiful" technology design strategy of shrinking the form factor to drive the x86 platform into ever smaller systems and whole new device categories.

"The Pico-ITX motherboard represents VIA's commitment to spearhead x86 innovation through our proven technology leadership in driving down the platform size," said Vice President of Corporate Marketing, VIA Technologies Inc., Richard Brown "As with the Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX form factors before it, this new platform has raised the excitement level among enthusiasts and customers alike, firing the imagination an almost unlimited range of what were previously impossibly small systems."

The VIA VT6047 Pico-ITX reference design has been successfully demonstrated during international trade shows this year, including during CES, CeBIT Germany and Embedded System Conference West. The VIA Platform Solutions Division will announce the first commercial main board based on the Pico-ITX form factor by next month.