VIA Intros Dual Core VIA EPIA-M910 Mini-ITX Board

VIA keeps expending its embedded motherboard lineup with new solutions based on the company’s own Nano and Eden microprocessors, the latest of these additions being the EPIA-M910 mini-ITX mainboard.

Users have the option of choosing between two board revisions, one packing a 1.6GHz VIA Nano X2 processor, while the other comes with a low-voltage 1.0GHz VIA Eden X2 CPU with passive cooling.

Both of these include two processing cores and are paired with the company's VX900H media system hub sporting hardware acceleration support for various HD video formats, including MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1, WMV9 and HDCP for Blu-ray content. 

The EPIA-M910 mainboard can also be configured with up to 8GB of system memory, via a pair of full-length DIMMs socket, while on the storage front the board comes equipped with a pair of SATA 3Gps port.

Throughout the board PCB, VIA has also placed various other headers for a 24-bit LVDS interface, four USB 2.0 ports, a 5-wire resistive touch sensor, and an 8-bit digital I/O. 

The rest of the required ports and connectors are spread around the sides of the EPIA-M910 and these include HDMI and VGA video outputs, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, dual COM ports (four more are available via an add-on card), 5.1-channel audio and a pair of PS/2 connectors. 

A PCI Express x4 slot rounds up the features list, which can be populated with a raiser card packing one PCIe x1 slot and a regular 32-bit legacy PCI slot.

“The VIA EPIA-M910 Mini-ITX board delivers a highly optimized platform that boasts comprehensive HD video performance, HD audio and HDMI support in a compact, power-efficient package" said Epan Wu, head of the VIA embedded platform division, VIA Technologies, Inc. 

“The rich I/O provides the connectivity and flexibility demanded by today’s ever diversifying embedded applications,” concluded the company’s rep.

VIA hasn't revealed any information regarding the release or the pricing of the EPIA-M910 motherboard, but this is expected to be sold only to system integrators and OEMs.

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