The Consortium says it hopes its new members will "leverage their expertise and industry clout" in helping maintain key board standards. Standards maintained by the Consortium include PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI-104, EBX, and EPIC. The membership of Via suggests the possibility that Via's mini-ITX and nano-ITX mini-motherboard formats could now come under the Consortium's stewardship, but both Via and the Consortium remained mum on that subject.

Tom Barnum, president of the Consortium, stated, "I look forward to [our new members'] active participation and guidance in evolving the Consortium to meet today's end-user needs."

PC/104 design contest winners announced

Additionally, the Consortium announced the winners of its annual design contest, in three categories:

• Commercial for Industrial/Medical/Transportation/Other -- Devicia/Groupe LTI's entry, "Automated Decontamination Trailer"
  
  
• Commercial for Military/Aerospace -- Magnetic Test Bench's entry with the same name, "Magnetic Test Bench"
  
  
• Research Project -- "TYPE 1," a small mobile robot designed for research purposes

All contest finalists are described in detail in our earlier story at DeviceForge.

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