After a first announcement in January, AMD has released the final DTX case format specifications.

DTX motherboards are designed to fit inside ATX cases and DTX cases will support mini-ITX motherboards, allowing full backwards compatibility.

The main advantage of this DTX case format is that it allows manufacturers to produce four boards on a standard manufacturing panel size.

The DTX specification is slightly larger than Via's mini ATX form factor, but inlike the mini ATX form factor, DTX includes a mandatory two expansion slots - either PCI or PCI-Express.

The DTX motherboards will require a standard 24-pin power connector and an additional 2x2 power connector.

This news article was written on February 20, 2007, quoting The Inquirer.