Death of thin-itx format?

[tramall]

I do not know if it is true...

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2016/02/thin ... -dead.html

..but it looks like

[edh]

With MiniSFX on it's way why would you need thin MiniITX? Thin systems always do without expansion cards which means the whole 20mm of the bottom of MiniITX is wasted anyway. MiniSFX is the logical next step to enable systems much smaller than MiniITX but still a lot bigger and more powerful than NUC.

[eugenius]

The ability to use a 4x pcie card is what was great about thin itx. You could make a router, a video capture pc, a media PC with a high end soundcard, in short a dedicated solution centered on what card you used.

With miniSTX all you have is a pointless expensive way to spend more money for less. What's the point of miniSFX, dense render farms?