14 DAY TRIAL // While Jetway is not exactly one of the best-known hardware components' manufacturers out there, the company did manage to come up with some pretty interesting products over time, and now, it seems keen to join the growing group of motherboard manufacturers supporting AMD's forthcoming Brazos platform. So, as PC Perspective reports, it seems that Jetway prepared their own mini-ITX, Brazos-compatible mobo, called NF81-LF, which, similar to some of the other products of this type already announced/leaked, is designed specifically for the industrial/commercial segments, targeting, more precisely, embedded systems.
The mobo from Jetway offers quite a few interesting features, albeit not exactly anything we haven't seen before in some of the previous mobos that made their way online.
For example, the mobo includes LVDS, mSATA ports, a COM port and even a GPIO header, some of these components being designed specifically in order to cater for the needs of the industrial segment.
The board is powered by a 9w AMD Ontario single-core Fusion APU and the Hudson E1 chipset complete the Brazos platform, accompanied by two SODIMM sockets for DDR3-1066/1333 memory.
It's also interesting to mention that the mini-ITX AMD Brazos motherboard from Jetway also provides plenty of connectivity options, including here HDMI, DVI and VGA, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, plenty of USB connectors (no USB 3.0, though), as well as a legacy PS/2 interface.
Unfortunately, for the time being, Jetway has refrained from providing any pricing or availability details regarding their future Brazos motherboard, but it's quite likely that it will become officially available roughly in the same timeframe as the other similar products out there, namely Q1 or Q2, 2011.
Of course, it remains to be seen just how the Brazos will manage to fare in terms of market success, but given the fact that initial reviews paint a pretty good picture as to what we should expect from the low-power APU platform in terms of performance, it's quite likely that it might become a serious contender for Intel's Atom.