VIA today announced the VIA EPIA-M910 Mini-ITX board, the latest dual core Mini-ITX board featuring a rich I/O set. Aimed at embedded applications including ATM, kiosks, POS, digital signage, healthcare and digital media applications, the VIA EPIA-M910 is available in both active and passive cooling configurations with the choice of either a performance oriented 1.6GHz VIA Nano X2 dual core processor or a fanless 1.0GHz VIA Eden X2 dual core processor. The board is paired with the VIA VX900 media system processor, which boasts hardware acceleration for the latest VC1, H.264, MPEG-2 and WMV9 HD formats at screen resolutions of up to 1080p without incurring a heavy CPU load. The board supports up to 8GB of DDR3 system memory.



The I/O set of the VIA EPIA-M910 features HDMI and VGA display connectivity ports with pin headers for two 24-bit LVDS (one single channel and one dual channel), eight USB 2.0 ports, dual Gigabit LAN networking, eight COM ports (which can be expanded to twelve with the VIA LPC-01/02 add-on card) and is available in SKU's with either DC-in or ATX power supply support.

Rear panel I/O includes dual Gigabit LAN ports, PS/2 support, one HDMI port, a VGA port, two RS-232 5v/12v selectable COM ports, four USB 2.0 ports and audio jacks. On board pin headers provide 2 x 24-bit LVDS support (including backlight control), two SATA ports, an additional six COM ports, a further four USB ports, Digital I/O, and a PCIe x4 slot. The VIA EPIA-M910 is available with support for either ATX or DC-in power supplies.

The VIA EPIA-M910 Mini-ITX is currently available.