14 DAY TRIAL // Intel’s Atom processors definitely aren’t as popular as just a few years back, but this hasn’t stopped Jetway from developing a new mini-ITX thin-profile motherboard based on the chip maker’s latest Atom Cedar Trail platform.
Jetway’s motherboard is called the JNF9C-2600 and just as its name implies this is based on an Intel Atom N2600 processor.
This chip was built by Intel in order to be used in netbooks and other mobile devices and sports dual computing cores clocked at 1.6GHz, with Hyper-Threading support and 1MB of shared L2 cache memory.
In Jetway’s creation, both this CPU and the NM10 chipset accompanying it are cooled by low-profile aluminum heatsinks.
In order to save up space, Jetway decided to drop the regular DIMM memory and instead go with a smaller SO-DIMM memory socket.
This can be populated with up to 2GB of DDR3 memory, while the rest of the expansion options include two SATA 3Gbps ports and a mini PCI Express x1 slot.
This is placed to the right of the motherboard’s heatsink and can be used to install an 802.11 b/g/n module, in order to provide WiFi support to Jetway’s creation.
An additional mini PCIe slot is available on the opposite side of the board, which seems destined to be used for adding an mSATA solid state drive.
To the rear of the JNF9C-2600, Jetway installed all the usual I/O ports found in low-profile boards, also including an HDMI video output.
Furthermore, the motherboard comes equipped with three USB 2.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a serial port, a speakers output, as well as with a 12V DC input jack that connects to an external power brick.
The Jetway JNF9C-2600 has already reached retail, liliputing spotting it at Newegg where it’s priced at $160 US (about 121.5 EUR).