Thursday, December 1, 2011

Small is Beautiful: 10 Years of Mini-ITX

Small is Beautiful: 10 Years of Mini-ITX

VIA Technologies is celebrating the 10th birthday of Mini-ITX, a small motherboard (and case) form factor whose first reference design was created by Robert Kuo, Assistant Vice President, VIA Technologies. The idea was to build a 17x17cm PC motherboard that could spark a new wave of computer industrial design – and it did. The new small form factor has enabled all kinds of PC “mods” (modifications) allowing PCs to go everywhere (cars, scooters, robots…) and look like anything (vintage radio R2D2, millennium falcon – you name it!).

Ubergizmo, Small is Beautiful: 10 Years of Mini-ITX