VIA AMOS-3001 Mini-PC Revealed

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VIA has taken the covers off of their new micro-PC, the VIA AMOS-3001, which measures only 15 x 4.6 x 10.8 cm. While you won’t be playing Crysis on it, it still is an impressive computer for its size. The AMOS-3001 uses the Pico-ITX motherboard form factor that was introduced by VIA three years ago.

VIA recently launched the new VIA EPIA-P280 motherboard that fit their Pico-ITX standard, and the AMOS-3001 is the first commercially available computer to use it. The tiny, tiny computer uses a fanless design, but as you can see, the entire case of the computer is basically a heat sink, which is how they get away with it.

Storage is bring your own – the AMOS has no internal storage, although it does have a few USB ports for external storage, and a IDE port lets you connect a proper hard drive.

As for specs, the AMOS-3001 is packing a VIA Nano CPU that’s clocked at 1.2Ghz as well as 2GB of memory and a VIA XV855 Graphics Processor. The XV855 is what supplies the 1080p video for the AMOS-3001 – and does it quite easily, apparently, as VIA brads that the AMOS-3001 is capable of full-screen HD video output with low CPU consumption and high frame rates.

VIA has the AMOS-3001 targeted for an industrial market – like running an assembly line. Despite it’s heat sink body and gun metal gray color, one tech blog said the steely AMOS-3001 would “also make for a pretty impressive HTPC”. No word on pricing or availability yet, although VIA is currently testing the unit with their corporate partners.