AMD DTX Form Factor Gets Support

AMD has introduced the DTX form factor in order to create a basis for Small Form Factor (SFF) computers. DTX is an open standard designed to aid Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) in the production of smaller, quieter and more power-efficient solutions especially for Home Theater PCs.

Development on this new standard has begun on the 10th of January 2007, AMD making the specifications part of an open standard so that computer components manufacturers would hopefully take part in this ordeal. DTX has many advantages; it benefits from the existing ATX infrastructure and it's also backwards-compatible to it.

Now at just a couple of months after its initial release, the AMD DTX Form Factor has received a lot of support from companies such as Akasa, Albatron, ASUS, Asetek, Compucase, ECS, Founder, FSP, Gigabyte, Hedy, NVIDIA, Shuttle, SilverStone Technology, Thermaltake, and Tongfang.

Bob Brewer, the corporate vice president of the Desktop Division at AMD stated that "AMD's customer-centric leadership role in defining DTX is invigorating the ecosystem and we are seeing the industry rally around the possibilities and future with this open standard. With the DTX open standard specification, the potential exists for the small form factor market to reap benefits similar to what the ATX standard has done for the desktop market in recent years. Leveraging commonalities within the PC ecosystem can also benefit customers and end users who value the size advantage, power savings, and quiet nature of energy-efficient systems."

AMD's current concern is the large-scale approval of this standard by as many manufacturers as possible, and believes that an accelerated growth in this type of market is possible through the introduction of a mechanical interoperability standard. From this moment and up until the point where such a standard will be approved and developed by AMD and the computer components manufacturers I don't think it will take very much time, seeing how the initial standard specifications have already seen a great deal of approval from many companies.