VIA Celebrates 5th Birthday of EPIA Mini-ITX Mainboards!
VIA launches month of celebrations to mark the first EPIA mainboard, as global recognition of the potential of VIA’s innovation has turned Mini-ITX into an industry standard form factor and a platform for unfettered creativity
[quote]Taipei, Taiwan, 5 February 2007 – Five years ago today, VIA Technologies, Inc. launched the first EPIA mainboards through its VIA Platform Solutions Division (VPSD) based on the Mini-ITX form factor it had invented three months earlier – the smallest, most integrated standard PC platform in the world, with global channel availability announced in April 2002. This launch has proved the catalyst for a “Big Bangâ€