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This is one of a series of weekly mini-rants by your faithful correspondent, John Morrison. These is a regular series focusing on issues in the SFF niche. All content is entirely opinion of John, not of SmallFormFactor.net, and should not be taken as fact.
About a year ago, Intel previewed a new form factor, as a slightly larger brother to the NUC format that they had championed. This new format was called "5x5" in reference to the 5 inch by 5 inch PCB the board used (we'll not get into Metric versus antiquated measurement systems here!). We didn't hear much more about it really, until Computex 2016 at the end of May.
Suddenly, a small bunch of cases and boards appeared, based on Intel socket 1151. As the form factor designed by Intel is very strict, not much variation was had in these new boards, but the cases did show some ingenuity in SFF design.
Read more here.
About a year ago, Intel previewed a new form factor, as a slightly larger brother to the NUC format that they had championed. This new format was called "5x5" in reference to the 5 inch by 5 inch PCB the board used (we'll not get into Metric versus antiquated measurement systems here!). We didn't hear much more about it really, until Computex 2016 at the end of May.
Suddenly, a small bunch of cases and boards appeared, based on Intel socket 1151. As the form factor designed by Intel is very strict, not much variation was had in these new boards, but the cases did show some ingenuity in SFF design.
Read more here.