VIA's new EPIA CL, first spotted by us at CeBIT back in March, is almost with us. The EPIA CL has different connectivity options than current EPIAs, with 4 x USB 2.0 ports and 2 x 10/100 LAN ports (with independent network controllers) on the back panel - but no Firewire or TV-out ports. The same CLE266 chipset as used in the EPIA M is present, though only 2 channel audio is possible through the VT1612A AC’97 Codec. There is one DDR266 DIMM socket supporting up to 1GB, as with the EPIA M. The CL is targetted at the networking market, and those twin LAN ports will certainly come in useful for such applications. There will be two EPIA CLs - the EPIA CL10000 (1Ghz Nehemiah) and the EPIA CL6000 (600Mhz Eden).
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