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AMD develop open standard specification for small form factor PC


Wednesday, January 10, 2007

AMD has announced that it is developing an open standard specification that it believes will enable the broad adoption of small form factor (SFF) PCs.

According to the company, the standard, which it is calling DTX, will take advantage of existing ATX infrastructure and benefits which include cost-efficiency, system options and backward-compatibility. The company said that it plans to make a review copy of the specification available in the first quarter of 2007.

The company claimed that the DTX standard will be designed to embrace energy-efficient processors from AMD or other hardware vendors so that an optimally designed SFF system will consume less power and generate less noise. Also, the company said that DTX will be designed to provide improved motherboard layout standardization, while being sensitive to the needs of OEMs, ODMs, and component vendors.

Two sizes, DTX and Mini-DTX, are being planned which will allow the production of up to four or six motherboards respectively per standard printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing panel, the company revealed. It also pointed out that DTX motherboards could be manufactured in as few as four-layers of PCB wiring for cost savings. Additionally, the company added that by leveraging backward-compatibility with ATX infrastructure, vendors may gain a low-cost DTX product offering with little development expense.

Taiwan motherboard makers Asustek and Micro-Star International have expressed interest in the project.

By: DocMemory
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