Thread: VIA shows new EPIA motherboard

VIA has re-energized its EPIA series with a latest motherboard that targets the industrial along with fixed application market, the EPIA N700-10EW.

This Nano-ITX motherboard is completed to work under unkind environments as well as can work at temperatures ranging from -20 to 70 degrees Celsius, in addition to the fact that it does not require any fans.

The condition includes VIA Eden ULV processor clocked at 1GHz as well as balancing up with VIA's VX800 chipset with Chrome9 included graphics. The motherboard also has a single DDR2 533/677 So-DIMM slot with support for up to 2GB of memory as well as still features two SATA connectors. The backplate comes with two USB ports, COM port; D-Sub output along with PCI-E based Gigabit LAN.

VIA Chrome9 HC3 DX9 incorporated graphics as well as VX800 chipset it appears with MPEG-2/4, WMV9 as well as VC1 video decoding acceleration. In addition to the involved VGA output, the latest EPIA board also has a 24-bit dual channel LVDS connector.

It also features Mini-PCI slot, Compact Flash Type I, IDE port, another COM, two extra USB ports as well as PS/2 port by the use of pin-headers. It yet has an onboard audio to VIA VT1708B HD chip. It can also be matching with each USB WLAN or Mini PCI WLAN modules.

The same type of motherboard is also obtainable with moreover 1.5GHz using C7 (EPIA-N700-15L) or 500MHz by the use of Eden ULV (EPIA-N700-05LE) processors.