Support Growing for DTX PC Standard
Published: 15 March 2007
by Mike Buetow
HANNOVER, Germany – Support for AMD’s new standard for small form factor PCs is growing, the chipmaker said today.
DTX open standard specification helps OEMs and suppliers to develop energy-efficient small form factor products that are smaller, quieter, and desktop-friendly. Akasa, Albatron, ASUS, Asetek, Compucase, ECS, Founder, FSP, Gigabyte, Hedy, NVIDIA, Shuttle, SilverStone Technology, Thermaltake and Tongfang have expressed support for DTX, AMD said.
DTX is designed to help neutralize the cost difference between small form factor and standard desktop PCs by permitting OEMs, ODMs and component vendors to take advantage of existing ATX infrastructure. Available benefits include cost efficiency, system options and backward-compatibility to help enable OEMs and the channel ecosystem offer ground-breaking PC design.
With the release of a review copy of the proposed industry guidelines for DTX, AMD is encouraging companies to contribute to the guidelines. The DTX specification defines a minimum set of parameters necessary for interoperability, freeing vendors to innovate. A review copy is now available online at dtxpc.org.
DTX allows up to four motherboards – for production optimization – per standard PCB panel. Mini-DTX allows up to six motherboards – for low cost – per standard PCB manufacturing panel sizes. DTX motherboards can be manufactured in as few as four layers for motherboard cost savings.
