VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Form Factor (17cm x 17cm)

VIA launched the (now established industry) standard Mini-ITX form factor in 2002 and won global recognition in the embedded industry for its unfettered creativity. The launch proved to be the catalyst for a "Big Bang" of small form factor innovation among industry players. As a result, the VIA Mini-ITX form factor has been widely adopted for an enormous variety of small footprint systems and off-the-shelf platforms for rapidly bringing exciting new ideas to the embedded market.

The VIA Mini-ITX board form factor is a highly integrated native x86 platform measuring 17 cm x 17 cm and enables the development of an seemingly infinite variety of small form factor embedded systems. More than 33% smaller than the FlexATX mainboard form factor, the VIA Mini-ITX form factor is aimed at the development of thin clients, wireless network devices, digital media systems, set top boxes, embedded devices and more.

VIA's Mini-ITX boards successfully integrate various combinations of readily-available chipsets and processor components designed by VIA. The boards are uniquely designed to share the workload across the whole platform rather than being focused on the CPU. The onboard components come with rich feature sets that include ultra low power native x86 processors, onboard LAN and various integrated AGP graphics and audio options. Further enhancing its versatility, VIA Mini-ITX boards can include CompactFlash and MiniPCIe slots, TV-out connector, SPDIF 5.1 audio, USB 2.0, 1394 (Firewire), integrated MPEG-2/MPEG-4/WMV9 decoding, support for up to DDR2 667, SATA and much more.