Motherboards

Boasting about their features - they're all good at that. But when it comes to outperforming its predecessor, the KT333 chipset, there's dissension in the KT400 camp. DDR400 doesn't seem to be the be-all and end-all of RAM because only rarely do you get more performance with the fast memory than you do with DDR333. tech news

This white paper defines Mini-ITX, the IT industry's smallest form factor mainboard specification, developed by VIA Technologies, Inc. As part of the company's open industry-wide Total Connectivity initiative, the new VIA Mini-ITX mainboard enables the creation of an exciting new generation of small, ergonomic, innovative and affordable embedded systems through its high level of integration and vastly reduced size of less than 33% the size of the FlexATX mainboard form factor. The new Mini-ITX mainboard comes with an onboard VIA Eden Embedded System Platform or a VIA C3 E-series processor, boasting high levels of integration, ultra low power consumption and cool, quiet operation providing a noiseless and more ergonomic system. tech news

A pioneer in standards-based solutions that monitor distributed applications from end-to-end across enterprise networks. As a startup, they were trying to design and develop our own boards and then handle systems integration. They were having difficulty trying to build their business and develop the product at the same time - product manufacturing was not their core business. WIN recommended that they outsource their product manufacturing to them. Today, WIN provides them with four different systems that include specially designed cases and boards. tech news

A technology leader in the development of fast whole-blood analyzers to, support the care of critically ill patients. They develop and manufacture medical devices and diagnostic products for many of the world's leading healthcare corporations. They had to integrate single board computers (SBC's), LCD panels and assemble the machines themselves, but found that the quantities needed were too small to justify the cost of in-house manufacturing. They hired WIN to handle machine control subassembly, the SBC and LCD integration of the embedded PCs for two of their systems. One system is small-format (biscuit PC) motherboard complete with memory, CPU and hard floppy disk drives. The second system is a small-format (slot PC) motherboard with a passive backplane, CPU, floppy and hard disk drives. tech news

When a leading manufacturer and a worldwide marketer of high-tech programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and motion control systems used in process automation and industrial control decided to migrate their unique board designs to industry-standard boards, they found that their supplier could not deliver products of consistent quality. They hired WIN initially to design and build new boards for us. Today, they provide us with complete systems, handle final assembly and testing of the units, as well as maintenance and technical support. tech news