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small form factor

Equipment that is smaller than other products in the same category. For example, a mini PC is a small-form factor (SFF) device. See form factor and mini PC.
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Design engineers in the embedded market are developing increasingly complex designs within small form factors," said Erik Salo, AMD's director of marketing for the Personal Connectivity Solutions Group.
AMD Geode GX SOM-144 Reference Design Kit provides low-power solutions for industrial computing applications
AMD believes growth and availability of systems in the small form factor market can be accelerated with a mechanical interoperability standard that offers a similar business model and economics to what currently exists with ATX-based systems today.
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The current interface for small form factor is CF+, a 50-pin interconnect that features parallel ATA in a confined space.
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We chose to use Lenovo's ThinkCentre small form factor desktops because of their size, reliability and ease-of-use.
Lenovo Expands Desktop Lineup to Go Small on Size, Big on Value
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced development of DTX, an open standard specification designed by AMD to enable the broad adoption of small form factor PCs.
AMD Announces Development of DTX Open Standard to Help Enable Broad Adoption of Small Form Factor PCs
Dataquest believes that the new generation of small form factor PCs will be instrumental in making this happen.
Dataquest Says Developing Regions Lead Worldwide PC Industry To 18% Growth In 2nd Quarter 2000
As the only company with a single-chip, all-CMOS solution for WiMedia Ultra Wideband applications, the addition of WCSP to Staccato's portfolio further positions Staccato as the supplier of choice for mobile and portable products that demand a small form factor in combination with low cost and power.
Staccato Expands Single-Chip UWB Portfolio with Industry's Smallest Form Factor Solution for Certified Wireless USB
The new CIS chip provides a small form factor and high picture quality.
Samsung Develops 1/4-inch 3-megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Ultra Slim Camera Phones
a leading designer and manufacturer of optical transceivers and components, today announced that the company successfully demonstrated 1310 nanometer (nm) vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) transceivers in a 10 gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) design for the IEEE 802.
Picolight Demonstrates Industry's First 10GBASE-LRM SFP+ Transceiver
Toshiba, the industry leader in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), maintained global market share leadership for all HDDs shipped to consumer electronics (CE) devices in the third quarter of 2006 and remained at the top of overall mobile HDD shipments for the fifth consecutive quarter, according to the most recent storage industry report from research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
Toshiba Leads Global HDD Shipments to Consumer Electronics Applications for the Third Quarter of 2006
Integrated MEMS gyroscopes have the potential to increasingly penetrate handheld products in the coming years because of their cost effectiveness, versatility, accuracy and small form factor," said Peter Adrian, senior analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a Foster City, Calif.
InvenSense Launches World's First Integrated Dual-Axis Gyroscopes into High Volume Production for Consumer Products

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