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Fig 1.1 - Power consumption chart
Performance
While reducing the footprint of a motherboard, performance of a motherboard usually decreases.
However, this is not the case with VIA’s mini-ITX mainboards. By providing high levels of
integration, the Mini-ITX boards often challenge and in some cases exceed the performance of
full sized motherboards. Overall, VIA’s “Per Clock” clock performance is better than that of word’s
leading CPU manufacturer.
Fig 1.2 - Winstone Performance per Clock
Embedded or Consumer PCs?
While Intel’s and AMD’s processors are getting bigger and hotter and National’s Geode is
stagnating at about 300Mhz, VIA's x86 CPUs are getting smaller, faster and cooler, thus
providing a real solution for today’s challenging computing environments. Consumer PC OEMs
and system Integrators love it. The embedded projects developers love the Mini-ITX platform for
its flexibility, low cost and low power requirements.
In an unprecedented move, VIA technologies is blurring the line between the worlds of consumer
PCs and embedded systems. Both worlds benefit from this move (smaller, better PCs and
embedded systems at very low costs).
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