Adds support for a reliable, efficient RTOS for medical, industrial automation and transportation applications

Taipei, Taiwan, September 28^th, 2011 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the forthcoming availability of a new board support package (BSP) for motherboards featuring the VIA Nano X2 CPU, VIA VX900 MSP and GigaLAN solutions and Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).

The VIA EPIA-M900 Mini-ITX board will be the first VIA motherboard to offer the BSP for VxWorks. Wind River’s VxWorks is a robust, reliable RTOS with a small footprint that offers fast booting and increased security suitable for resource-constrained environments critical in medical, industrial automation, transportation and other mission-critical applications.

"We are pleased to offer the BSP for our VIA embedded motherboards featuring VxWorks," said Epan Wu, Head of the VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. "This will enable VIA customers to speed up time to market and take advantage of the rich capabilities of the industry leading VxWorks RTOS."

VIA EPIA-M900 Mini-ITX Board

More information about the VIA EPIA-M900 Mini-ITX board may be found at:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/ProductDetail.jsp?productLine=1&id=1550&tabs=1

Further details about VxWorks may be found at:
http://www.windriver.com/products/vxworks/.