AMD has now announced that it is working on an open formfactor standard called DTX. The new platform is intended for the growing market called Small Form Factor PCs and the goal is simply to ease the development of SFF systems for system builders and component manufacturers and with more efficient cooling. Intel’s latest formfactor, BTX, was hardly a success but AMD’s venture on the SFF market has a bit different goal. AMD is not just focusing on a specific motherboard layout and case design, it has also considered the most efficient ways to manufacture motherboards of the DTX standard, etc.
Several large component manufacturers such as ASUS and MSI have shown great interest in AMD’s initiative and it will be interesting to see the first specifications for the DTX standard.
“The DTX standard will be designed to embrace energy-efficient processors from AMD or other hardware vendors, and allow an optimally designed small form factor system to consume less power and generate less noise. When processor power consumption is reduced, system size and cooling costs can also go down.”
No active posts found.