Even Pico-ITX sucks relatively large amounts of power, and is targeted at non-battery dependent applications (kiosks, cars, etc). Read the whitepapers on what Intel is doing with this chipset/platform with regard to being able to selectively shut off power-sucking resources during idle, without shutting off the whole system.
Miniaturization is one half of this. Extremely low and versatile power consumption is the other.
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There's something out similar to this, and it's available now. It's called the VIA Pico-ITX.
the pico-itx board is the size of a CD (120mm square), this is much smaller
Oops, thats nanoITX i was thinking of. PicoITX is pretty small (3.9in x 2.8in)
Even Pico-ITX sucks relatively large amounts of power, and is targeted at non-battery dependent applications (kiosks, cars, etc). Read the whitepapers on what Intel is doing with this chipset/platform with regard to being able to selectively shut off power-sucking resources during idle, without shutting off the whole system.
Miniaturization is one half of this. Extremely low and versatile power consumption is the other.