This new form factor specifies motherboards measuring only 10cm x 7.2cm, or 3.9" x 2.8" - tiny enough to fit in somebody's palm. VIA has already released a Pico-ITX reference motherboard, the VT6047, and it intends to announce the first commercial products based on the new form factor "shortly."  According to VIA, the VT6047 Pico-ITX board is designed to accommodate a low-power VIA C7 or fan-less VIA Eden processor enclosed in a 21mm x 21mm nanoBGA2 package. The top of the board houses the processor, chipset, Ethernet controller, BIOS chip, and connectors for power, IDE, Serial ATA, USB, audio, video, and other miscellaneous I/O. The bottom of the board sports a 200-pin DDR2 SO-DIMM slot, a battery, and an HD audio codec chip. VIA Arena has posted the first preview of the Pico-ITX form factor that includes several pictures of the VT6047 reference mobo:

The Pico-ITX was designed to be powered by an energy efficient VIA processor and a VIA chip solution that provides a rich feature set. Its no surprise then that VIA's EPIA designers already have an EPIA just around the corner. The specifications on the EPIA PX will be quite similar to the EPIA EX10000G - the latest Mini-ITX released by VIA's Platform Solution Division. No doubt there will be more than one model but a sample specification includes a VIA C7 1.0GHz and the VX700 single chip solution. Like the CX700M2 featured on the EPIA EX, the VX700 features Integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II 3D/2D AGP graphics, with MPEG-2/4 and WMV9 decoding acceleration.

In terms of I/O, the list is exceptionally long for such a small footprint: 4 USB 2.0, 1 COM, 1 PS2, 1 LVDS/DVI, 1 multimedia for TV/out, 1 audio for line-out/line-in, mic-in, optical-in, and 7.1 channel output, RJ-45 LAN, VGA . The actual I/O back plate of course can't offer all of that, most are available via pin headers on the board, just like the EPIA NL model. Only the VT6106S 10/100 ethernet and the VGA port are on the I/O plate.