Intel is claimed to peek at the MoDT concept that AOpen started in 2004, Mobile on DeskTop is just what it sounds like, a stationary computer with mobile genes for low power consumption and a slim design. Together AOpen and Intel displayed an SFF system called AOpen MP945-VX during IDF in March. This system was AOpen's reply to Apple Mac mini and used among others a Core Duo processor and was intended for the Media Center market. Especially the Media Center market seems to be one of Intel's goals with its future MoDT venture and overall it seems like the PC as we know it will be reduced, physically.
International Data Corporation (IDC) says that Media Center and the digital home is what will carry the future need for PCs, while these are the system's the market will demand, it will also demand smaller such. Intel seems to be well aware of this and we should be able to expect more of the chip giant's mobile processors on dekstops here and there, and then not only inside laptops and notebooks.
Intel Santa Rosa in SFF systems
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