We sat down with leading motherboard manufacturer AOpen to see its 2006 offerings and find out what the people there felt about Viiv.

AOpen has targeted the home theater market in a big way this year, and its board offerings all feature high quality composite video out, S-video out, and RCA video out buit in (as well as DVI and VGA). They come in all form factors from full ATX down to Mini-ITX, and all of them sport the Azalea high definition audio codec. But the biggest surprise? All of the boards that they will release this year are designed for Viiv or Pentium M (both single and dual core). This is an indication of the faith that the firm has in Intel's new architecture.