VIA releases chipset documentation [LWN.net]

VIA releases chipset documentation

Posted Nov 24, 2008 10:30 UTC (Mon) by gnb (subscriber, #5132)
In reply to: VIA releases chipset documentation by obi
Parent article: VIA releases chipset documentation

> But for some mysterious reason it seems like VIA is leaving the entire
>market to Intel's Atom (see hp mini-note 2133 -> hp mini 1000).
In fact I haven't seen any evidence of anyone shipping consumer
nano-based products, be it mini-ITX boards, laptops... which is odd
several months after the announcement. Which suggests either it's all
going to the industrial embedded market or they're having trouble
bringing something to production (either boards or CPUs) (or I'm looking
in the wrong places, always possible). It's a pity as I'd quite like one.
Anyone know anything more?

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VIA releases chipset documentation

Posted Nov 24, 2008 10:54 UTC (Mon) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link] (1 responses)

The ITX market is pretty specialised - there are online retailers who just sell ITX kit but they are for specific niches including home built in-car computers, low power PCs, industrial applications, etc. See http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/ProductSearch.aspx?Filter=... for some Nano based products for example.

VIA releases chipset documentation

Posted Nov 24, 2008 12:01 UTC (Mon) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link]

There are a reasonable number of shops selling mini-ITX boards to end
users, but few of them seem to be carrying nano-based boards. In the link
you provided (thank you for looking that up by the way) none of the
boards seem to have a nano CPU. One has a "C7® 1.8GHz NanoBGA2 processor"
but that's just the previous-generation C7 in a smaller BGA package.