Good days, if there ever were any, may be over for VIA. Their small sized platform, EPIA, will soon have a rival coming from no less than Intel itself.

The Atom processor doesn't come alone, it will do it accompanied by the i945G based chipset that will make their own Mini-ITX platform: Little Falls. Measuring only about 170mm x 170mm it will only have space for a single DDR2 memory slot and a couple of SATA ports. With an integrated graphics and a CPU that only requires 7.5W, in it's initial version, these systems will meet the demands for green computing.

We can expect products form ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI, at least. Let's hope they find their way down to the retail distribution channels; that would mean the market growing in that direction and better availability of VIA's EPIA than what we've seen in the past. Can you say "MacBook Air style barebones"?

Link: X-bit labs.

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