VIA AMOS gets new UK disti

The UK company 2001 is going to start supplying VIA AMOS solutions. The 2 VIA AMOS chassis, supporting Pico-ITX or Mini-ITX, start off with the basic PC and can then add modules for more options like ROM driver, PCI cards, etc. Although there's an ad in the border of their site, the link goes to the VIA product page, shown inside the main cell of their site. So pricing is not yet available. - Electronics Weekly.

High rise embedded design

The VIA AMOS series allows designers to make their own mini high rise computers - tiny but with as many floors as they need.

"The guiding principle behind the VIA AMOS-1000 and VIA AMOS-2000 is the ability to add additional layers to the chassis, facilitating simple system expansion for optical drives, system storage and PCI or PCI Express AIBs.-ECNMag.com

Layer upon layer

"Layer upon layer" ... what was that annoying ad that played insesintly during the 1990's? Australian readers will know what I mean. Some bird with a fake Swedish accent advertising pastry or something? "Layer upon layer" ... Look at the different layers of the new VIA AMOS-2000 (top) and the AMOS-1000 (below). Layer upon layer you can build what you need with the VIA AMOS!

VIA AMOS series offer huge expansion capabilities

One of these VIA AMOS chassis designs was seen on display at VIA's booth at Computex earlier in the year. I think it was the AMOS-2000 version which supports the Nano-ITX platform. There wasn't much info about it at the time but now VIA have put out a Press Release which includes information about a VIA AMOS-1000 and AMOS-2000 which are for the VIA Nano-ITX and VIA Mini-ITX platforms respectively. The chassis fit a VIA EPIA board (of the respective platform) and one 2.5" SATA hard drive and a power board. You can also fit optional component boards into the base chassis, to add wireless, COM, DVI and USB. Then on top of that you can also stack additional chassis to add more features. The extra chassis can be the same size or an ultra-slime version. With them you can add features like an optical drive, up to 3TB of storage, Compact Flash, MiniPCI port and up to two PCI or PCI Express cards for more networking or high end graphics. Really, it doesn't matter what your application or device is for, so long as a VIA EPIA Nano-ITX or Mini-ITX board can form the basis, the AMOS-1000 and AMOS-2000 chassis' versatility will allow embedded developers to build just what they need.