EPIA N700-10EW in vehicles?

This short article about the EPIA N700-10EW suggests that the embedded market might use the fanless Nano-ITX board for infotainment devices in vehicles. I hadn't read that before, nor thought of it myself but it makes perfect sense. With the ability to withstand temperature extremes from -20 to 70, even leaving the device running on a hot summers day in a car in Australia would be ok.

"No pricing information yet, the new platform is expected to reach embedded market soon targeted for industrial and vehicle infotainment usag"

70-20 - can handle anything

Even sites usually focused on gizmos and gadgets are impressed with the temperature range that the new EPIA N700-10EW can handle:

"VIA guarantees that this new breed of motherboards are able to maintain absolute stability within a wide temperature range from -20°C to 70°C despite taking on a fanless form factor."-Ubergizmo.

A close look at the new EPIA N700-10EW

Windowsfordevices.com really like to get down to the nitty gritty details about embedded products. In this article they really give the new VIA EPIA N700-10EW the once over, taking a good look at the design, I/O ports and options, as well as notes on how it differs from other VIA boards.

"Where the Epia N700 was available with a choice of Via processors -- either the 1.5GHz C7, or the 500MHz Eden ULV -- the N700-10EW is apparently offered with just one, an Eden ULV clocked at 1.0GHz. The latter CPU has a maximum TDP of five Watts, which, combined with the VX800's five-Watt TDP max, lets the Epia N700 use as little as 10 Watts, according to Via. Maximum memory capacity of the board, meanwhile, remains 2GB of 533/667MHz DDR2 RAM."

EPIA N700-10EW: Can be served hot or cold

Is it just more or are the temperature extremes that this little VIA board can withstand more impressive than other embedded boards?
"Guaranteed to maintain absolute stability at temperatures ranging from -20oc to 70oc, the VIA EPIA N700-10EW can be employed in environments that traditionally inhibit x86 computing."
Yep, it's another VIA EPIA board, a Nano-ITX platform variety, with a VIA Eden processor, the VX800 system media processor, one of VIA's latest, and it even has completely solid state capacitors.
"All VIA EPIA N700-10EW boards are rigorously tested for compatibility and reliability prior to shipping and are bundled with special wide temperature-verified system memory modules to ensure complete system stability." More in the official Press Release.