Pico-ITXe is a PCPico-ITXmotherboard specification created byVIA Technologies andSFF-SIG. It was announced by VIA Technologies on October 29, 2008, and released in December 2008. The Pico-ITXe specifications call for the board to be 10 × 7.2 cm (3.9 × 2.8 in), which is half the area ofNano-ITX, and 12 layers deep. The processor can be aVIA C7 that uses VIA's NanoBGA2 technology.[citation needed] It usesDDR2 667/533SO-DIMM memory, with support for up to 2GB. Video is supplied by VIA'sChrome9 HC3GPU with built-inMPEG-2,4,WMV9, andVC1 decoding acceleration. TheBIOS is a 4 or 8Mbit Award BIOS.[1][2]
The first motherboard that was produced under this specification is calledEPIA-P710. It was released in December 2008. It is 10 × 7.2 cm (3.9 × 2.8 in) and 12 layers deep. Theoperating temperature range is from 0°C to about 50 °C. Theoperating humidity level (relative and non-condensing) can be from 0% to about 95%. It uses a 1 GHz VIA C7-M processor,[3] a VIA VX800 chip set, and isRoHS compliant. It has onboardVGA video-out.Gigabit Ethernet is supplied by VIA's VT6122, but requires a connector board.HD 5.1 channel audio is provided by a VIA VT1708B chip.
The following are the standardI/O connections:
Up to four I/O expansion boards can be stacked upon each other using theSUMIT interface.[2]