The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker will be talking up its DTX standard, an open set of specifications for small-form-factor desktops, at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. On March 15, AMD plans to offer a briefing for its partners involved in developing the open DTX standard for small-form-factor PCs and announce that the first prototypes for this project should be ready by the middle of 2007, said Daryl Sartain, AMD's director of platform initiatives.
The DTX standard that AMD is proposing, Sartain said, will be open and not tied to any specific AMD product, and will not carry the company's label. "For the past two years, we have been receiving a lot of input and guidance from our partners and our customers about small-form-factor desktops," Sartain said. "We do see a growing market demand for these types of smaller chassis." AMD first announced that it would solicit partners to help develop the DTX standard at January's CES show in Las Vegas. While at the show, the company showed off some motherboard designs for small-form-factor desktops. While standard ATX boards are 9.6 inches by 9.6 inches, the standard DTX board would be manufactured at approximately 9.54 inches by 7.9 inches.
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The DTX standard that AMD is proposing, Sartain said, will be open and not tied to any specific AMD product, and will not carry the company's label. "For the past two years, we have been receiving a lot of input and guidance from our partners and our customers about small-form-factor desktops," Sartain said. "We do see a growing market demand for these types of smaller chassis." AMD first announced that it would solicit partners to help develop the DTX standard at January's CES show in Las Vegas. While at the show, the company showed off some motherboard designs for small-form-factor desktops. While standard ATX boards are 9.6 inches by 9.6 inches, the standard DTX board would be manufactured at approximately 9.54 inches by 7.9 inches.
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Secondly, although a fan of AMD, I'm not sure why they're doing this - why not concentrate on an existing SFF spec (like microATX) and try to make it more prevalent, or, at the very least, come up with a spec that has more distinct advantages than just size. At least Intel, when they created BTX, had a very specific design goal in mind - creating a more direct airflow path to help cool increasingly hotter components - something that is still important, even when considering the low-power chips that are being released these days.
Did you not read.
"For the past two years, we have been receiving a lot of input and guidance from our partners and our customers about small-form-factor desktops," Sartain said. "
Did you not read.
"For the past two years, we have been receiving a lot of input and guidance from our partners and our customers about small-form-factor desktops," Sartain said. "
Of course I read it. My point is that there are already SFF specs in use today - microATX and ITX/mini-ITX. Why not further develop one of these existing technologies (especially when one of them - microATX - already shares many of their design goals with DTX: fits standard ATX form factors, lower cost, lower power consumption)?
Did you not read.
"For the past two years, we have been receiving a lot of input and guidance from our partners and our customers about small-form-factor desktops," Sartain said. "
Of course I read it. My point is that there are already SFF specs in use today - microATX and ITX/mini-ITX. Why not further develop one of these existing technologies (especially when one of them - microATX - already shares many of their design goals with DTX: fits standard ATX form factors, lower cost, lower power consumption)?
That I have no clue but they must know what they are doing. I hope lol.
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