Enthusiast company DFI have made a name with its LAN Party products as they usually are some of the most feature packed around. It also makes products for the OEM industry and regular consumers. It has announced a mini-ITX motherboard that targets embedded systems. DFI NP100-N16C comes with an on-board Intel Atom N270 processor that together another chipset than Intel 945GSE would be very power efficient, now it’s just so-so.
The cooling is completely passive and the board can handle up to 2GB DDR2 memory through the one memory slot. Except from DVI and VGA outputs it also has an 18-bit dual-channel LVDS graphics interface. You also find two SATA slots, eight USB2.0 ports, stereo sound, PCI Express x1 slot and PCI slot.
DFI has made room for two Gigabit Ethernet network circuits and a CompactFlash card reader, which is a bit impressive considering the size of the mini-ITX format.
The price was not mentioned but the motherboard should be a nice option for small and power efficient systems.
