Albatron has launched K3780E, a motherboard comprised with two PCBs: a system board, where the processor and chipset are located, and an I/O board, where the motherboard connectors are. The system board includes an AMD ASB1 BGA embedded processor, AMD 780E northbridge chip (Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics engine, which is DirectX 10) and SB710 southbridge chip supporting four SATA-300 ports. The I/O board includes one PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one VGA port, one HDMI port and audio connectors.

This modular motherboard concept allows Albatron to adjust the board according to the customers' requirements without the need to redesign the whole board: simply replace the I/O board and/or the system board to have a computer with more features.

No word on pricing and availability.

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