Via's teeny tiny Mobile-ITX EPIA-T700 system board demonstrated twice (video)

We've been hearing of Via's Mobile-ITX technology for quite some time now, but it only became officially official last month and now we're seeing the thing in the silicon for the first time. The company has put together a little demo video that we've included below, showing off its minuscule 6cm x 6cm system board, about half the size of a Pico-ITX. But, there are two problems. The first is that this current Mobile-ITX board (the EPIA-T700) has no I/O connectors on it, meaning it must be mounted onto a larger carrier board if you want to do anything with it -- but hopefully that can be integrated into mobile devices and shrunk. The second problem? That the presenter flubbed the demonstration and someone forgot to edit the first take out of the video. See the frustration for yourself at the 1:15 mark after the break.

[kinglevel Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:49AM]

wtf?

[theonlysmr Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:11AM]

@kinglevel
6cm x 6m=chode

[Kajax77 Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:51AM]

The look on his face when he can get it to snap on is golden!

[Yoshi1080 Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:57AM]

I like that guy, he is in every VIA YouTube video. I don't know if he does anything else, but it's always cool to see a familiar face presenting those things.

The video is funny, I guess somebody in the editing room screwed up there. ;)

[TheLostSwede Posted Jan 19th 2010 10:48AM]

@Yoshi1080 His name is Stew btw

[Wwhat Posted Jan 19th 2010 11:29AM]

Clearly he's in prison, and always available for that reason I guess.

[Sieg Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:58AM]

6cm X 6cm?!?! now THAT'S TINY!!!

[petay Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:07AM]

@Sieg

thats what she said!!!!

[SPENone Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:58AM]

The transition in how small the chip sets have gotten is just amazing.

Was anyone else annoyed by the guys mannerism's ??

[NXTwoThou Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:27AM]

Wait, if it needs the carrier board, doesn't that really make the "real" size that of the carrier board? What's the point if doesn't end up being any smaller than the pico?

[Tes Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:39AM]

@NXTwoThou
A manufacturer would only be buying the main board and would fit their carrier board to it...your device may not need the connectors that another would so you could take off the USB inputs, power, sound etc.

[valerio Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:45AM]

@NXTwoThou

This is a generic carrier board probably to allow you to use it as a development board, I would expect to see this embedded in devices without the carrier board. All the connectors would be placed on the chassis and hence take advantage of the small footprint.

[phearme Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:36AM]

did anyone notice he farts at 2:28 ?

[theonlysmr Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:50AM]

@phearme
hahaha thats funny

[F C Posted Jan 19th 2010 4:31PM]

@phearme
Is that what it was? It sounded like someone blowing nose.

[Tito Posted Jan 20th 2010 4:19AM]

@phearme Chair farts.

[Kit Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:42AM]

No the problem is.... when and where can I get one... I am still wondering where is VIA nano.

[johnvillar Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:03AM]

@Kit No, the real problem is the VIA pricing so far... they charge huge amounts of cash for these form factors, they generally target these boards for industrial, militar and medical uses.... So, probably it won't be soon that we, simple mortals, can have one on our hands

[JS Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:26AM]

This could fit nicely in a tablet .. or i guess slate pc since thats the fashionable term nowadays.

[Tito Posted Jan 20th 2010 4:20AM]

@JS Tablet sounds better.

[NoSnEt Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:20PM]

But will it play Crysis

[SimonRichards Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:26PM]

This man laughs at ESD protection.

[FADE Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:56PM]

It's not so tiny when you have to attach it to something larger to get everything.

[Shauneh Posted Jan 19th 2010 5:54PM]

Well thats a lie...

GUMSTIX (google it), way smaller and been on the market a lot longer.

58mm x 17mm x 4.2mm.

It may not be as fast, (this is 1ghz if i listened through his stuttering) but it is smaller, and run on Arm. So no power hungry x86's in there :D

Fllllame on?