An oldie but a goodie

The VIA EPIA M motherboard was the first EPIA board to really make it big. Featuring decent (for the time) onboard graphics, 512MB of onboard RAM and a VIA C3 Eden processor with a ground-breakingly low power consumption, the board became a modder's paradise, and a cheap and easy way to build a home server. On eBay at the moment you can pick up a used EPIA M, that was used as a home server for years, for a meagre $50. Check it out.

VIA launches new ART-5450 in-vehicle management box

Using its own EPIA boards and extension modules, VIA has put together a complete package for fleet management. Using a VIA EITX-3000 Em-ITX board and the EMIO-3450 expansion module, the ART-5450 box PC can be fitted inside taxis, cars, trucks, etc, as the integral part of an in-vehicle monitoring system. With an operating temperature range of -200 - 700C, the boxes would be reliable even in extreme conditions.

There's quite a choice of 3G modules, including HSPA, WCDMA, EDGE and GPRS. Other features include a SIM card slot, 20 channel GPRS receiver and W-Fi.

VIA is handling orders on a project by project basis. - Source: Press Release

VIA announces dual-core Eden processors

At the Embedded World 2011 show in Germany this week, VIA has announced that in Q2 they will start supplying dual-core Eden processors. The VIA Eden X2 will feature 2 64-bit Eden cores on the one die. This should give a boost to multi-tasking, multimedia playback, and of course make them wickedly future-proof for Windows Embedded Standard 7. Speaking of future-proofing, the Eden X2 will come with a gaurantee that they'll be in production for 7 years, which gives embedded developers peace of mind that any design they come up with can be produced with VIA's Eden X2 for a seven year period. Other boons of the Eden X2 include VIA VT virtualization and VIA Padlock Security:

"VIA Eden X2 processors bring additional features that include VIA VT virtualization, a technology that allows legacy software and applications to be used in virtual scenarios without impacting on performance. The unique VIA AES Security Engine offers hardware-based data encryption on the fly, and essential tool in content protection and system security." - Source: Press Release.