Smaller than Nano-ITX? Sheesh.

Check out VIA’s latest form factor – ‘Luke’ - with the latest Via Eden proc.

This is apparently even smaller than the nano-ITX form factor, the miniaturization process is now taking them beyond board-level to silicon-level innovation. Of course it has on-board everything including a SATA-RAID controller.

I don’t have one of these in our lab yet, must remember to ask Lynda to get us some to play with <grin> Oh, and in the presentation below, VIA brags about extending ISA support to 2010, sigh.

Here's VIA's presentation of the Luke in PDF format (slow download)

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 06, 2005
  yeah, that'd be great...except even their Nano-ITX boards have yet to come out and we've been reading about them for a looong time now. I wish they'd get moving. :) That and they need to get a better BIOS. Award doesn't support hi-speed USB in BIOS (for booting from USB 2.0 devices like the new M-Systems UDOC). Imagine a board that small with a storage device as small as the UDOC. Perfect combo.
• Anonymous
  April 06, 2005
  So what you're saying is I won't be able to play with it for a while yet, eh? <grin>
• Anonymous
  April 16, 2005
  sfiorito is absolutely right. who cares about new products that never comes to market? march 2004 was announced nano-itx. it is still anavailable. how many years need they to bring luke on the market?
• Anonymous
  April 20, 2005
  I have been trying to locate Nano-ITX boards (to buy). I was under the impression that this was an actual VIA product but it is vaporware. A non-operational "prototype" Nano-ITX was introduced at Computex in September of 2003. It's now 1.5 years later and you can't buy a Nano-ITX motherboard anywhere. If VIA can't produce a Nano-ITX motherboard then what are the chances of VIA producing this.