14 DAY TRIAL // VIA may not be an especially strong presence on the overall CPU market, but it does have its stake in the embedded market, where it has now unleashed a new small form factor platform.
Since Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have practically split the consumer CPU market between themselves, VIA is constantly consolidating its position on the embedded front.
The company achieves this through its collection of specially-designed motherboards and CPUs.
The newest product to make it out of its labs was a new pico-ITX board dubbed EPIA-P830.
It measures a mere 10 x 7.2 cm but still manages to integrate the full list of features any platform is expected to have, even a processor.
What this means is that the motherboard is equipped with a VIA Nano E-Series chip whose clock speed is 1.2 GHz.
Said CPU is paired with the VX900 Media System processor and backed up by DDR3 800/1,066 RAM, up to 4GB via SODIMM to be exact.
It should end up being used in health-care, fleet management, logistics and other vertical markets.
"Modern enterprise environments in healthcare, logistics and fleet management require more connected and portable devices that don't hold back on multimedia ability," said Daniel Wu, Vice President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc.
"The VIA EPIA-P830 addresses these needs, creating the most complete pico-ITX board on the market with great HD video performance and a variety of display and network connectivity options," he added.
In addition to the CPU and up to 4 GB of memory, the embedded platform boasts a Vinyl HD audio codec (6-channel sound), Chrome9 HCM 3D integrated graphics and an HDMI port.
Finally, for extra functionality, an expansion board can be bought alongside the EPIA-P830, one which provides a D-Sub output, a pair of Mini-PCIe slots, two USB 2.0 connectors and Gigabit LAN.