14 DAY TRIAL // VIA Technologies has announced today the launch of its new AMOS series of universal chassis products, with the VIA AMOS-1000 and the VIA AMOS-2000 models, specifically built to work with the VIA EPIA Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX boards, which the Taiwan-based company has announced earlier this year. The new cases have been designed with a unique multi-story stackability feature.
“The expansion of our VIA AMOS chassis series to include Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX products is something that we are certain our customers will appreciate,” said Daniel Wu, vice president, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. “These new chassis designs offer a comprehensive feature set that can be easily sculpted into a wide variety of application specific designs.”
According to the company, the AMOS-1000 and AMOS-2000 models have been designed to provide a complete system design, offering customers the possibility to add additional layers to the chassis, consequently enabling a simple system expansion for optical drives, system storage and PCI or PCI Express AIBs.
Designed to work with the company's extensive line of EPIA Mini-ITX boards, the AMOS-1000 chassis can support a 2.5-inch hard disk, in addition to the board itself, and a DC to DC power board as well as optional companion boards, like wireless, COM, DVI and USB boards. The VIA AMOS-2000 Nano-ITX chassis measures just 19 cm x 19 cm x 6 cm and is designed to work only with EPIA Nano-ITX boards, as the name indicates. This case also comes with support for a range of companion cards that can be installed in the main chassis.
The new VIA chassis have been designed to be user-friendly and enable simpler system maintenance. They can be used in a wide range of industrial and commercial applications, including digital signage, healthcare, industrial control and automation, kiosk, POI/POS, as well as gaming and surveillance, the company said.
