Mobile-ITX

Mobile-ITX
A Mobile-ITX CPU module with an IO-board
Computer form factors
Name PCB size (mm)
WTX 356 × 425
AT 350 × 305
Baby-AT 330 × 216
BTX 325 × 266
ATX 305 × 244
EATX (Extended) 305 × 330
LPX 330 × 229
microBTX 264 × 267
NLX 254 × 228
Ultra ATX 244 × 367
microATX 244 × 244
DTX 244 × 203
FlexATX 229 × 191
Mini-DTX 203 × 170
EBX 203 × 146
microATX (min.) 171 × 171
Mini-ITX 170 × 170
EPIC (Express) 165 × 115
ESM 149 × 71
Nano-ITX 120 × 120
COM Express 125 × 95
ESMexpress 125 × 95
ETX/XTX 114 × 95
Pico-ITX 100 × 72
PC/104 (-Plus) 96 × 90
ESMini 95 × 55
Qseven 70 × 70
mobile-ITX 60 × 60
CoreExpress 58 × 65

Mobile-ITX is the smallest (by 2009) x86 compliant motherboard form factor presented by VIA Technologies in December, 2009. The motherboard size (CPU module) is 60mm × 60mm[1]. There are no computer ports on the CPU module and it is necessary to use an I/O carrier board. The design is intended for medical, transportation and military embedded markets. The first commercial Mobile-ITX CPU module is expected in Q1 of 2010.

History

The Mobile-ITX form factor was announced by VIA Technologies at Computex in June, 2007. The motherboard size of first prototypes was 75mm by 45mm[2]. The design was intended for ultra-mobile computing such as a smartphone or UMPC.

The prototype boards shown to date include a x86 compliant 1 GHz VIA C7-M processor, 256 or 512 megabytes of RAM, a modified version of the VIA CX700 chipset (called the CX700S),[3] an interface for a cellular radio module (demonstration boards contain a CDMA radio), a DC-DC electrical converter, and various connecting interfaces.

At the announcement, an Ultra-Mobile PC reference design was shown running Windows XP Embedded.[4]

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