• VIA Launches New Chipset

    VIA Launches New Chipset

    Techtree News Staff, Aug 17, 2005 1742 hrs IST

    VIA has announced VIA VN800, the 1st chipset solution for the VIA C7-M processor, with DDR2 memory and MPEG-2 decoding.

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VIA Technologies announced the VIA VN800, the first chipset solution for the VIA C7-M processor.

The VIA C7-M processor comes with DDR2 memory support for fast and efficient system memory access and hardware MPEG-2 decoding for DVD playback.

The VIA VN800 provides a comprehensive range of storage, multimedia and connectivity features, including native Serial ATA and support for 6-channel or 8-channel VIA Vinyl Audio, VIA Velocity Gigabit Ethernet and wireless LAN connectivity, USB2.0 and 1394.

The VIA VN800 features the S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP), providing outstanding dual pipeline graphics performance through a 128-bit 2D/3D engine and shared DDR memory support for all the latest applications.

The Chromotion CE Video Display Engine blends hardware-based MPEG-2 decoding acceleration, with advanced rendering tools such as Adaptive De-interlacing and Video Deblocking, to ensure the clearest playback of digital media content.

Furthermore, the VIA VN800 includes support for an external AGP 8X port, allowing optional graphics processor upgrades on supporting notebooks.

With the unique VIA Flexi-Bus Technology, the VIA VN800 enables support for the VIA V4 bus interface for the new VIA C7-M processor, as well as support for the Intel Pentium-M processor. The VIA VN800 also supports power efficient DDR2 533/400MHz memory modules.

The VIA VN800 is optimized for ultra-low power consumption to maximize battery life with advanced ACPI support, that tones down certain functions of the chipset when not in use.

Richard Brown, vice president - corporate marketing, VIA Technologies, said, "Right now we are seeing low power, highly-integrated mobile chipset solutions as one of the key driving forces behind the tremendous growth in the overall notebook market".

"VIA s experience and leadership across all platform segments makes us uniquely positioned to take advantage of this trend, and the launch of the VIA VN800 with its outstanding video playback and advanced power saving technologies will further boost VIA s momentum in the mobile marketplace", Brown added.

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uytuty
,utyityot, on Oct 04, 2008 05:55 PM
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vijayshimla
,Shimla, on Oct 02, 2005 12:34 PM
Wanted in India, most urgently some enterprising company to bring a Via VN800 chipset based notebook PC-with C7-M processor- with a 14 inch display, and 4 cell batt, am sure the Rs. 20000-00 barrier could be broken, and surely on account of low power consumption of this chipset/processorcombination, battery life will be good. It could sell in millions in India, an answer to every prayer even in rural areas, where there is electricity supply only for a few hours. Mr. Richard Brown, India is your market, all other markets are taken over by Intel & AMD!!.
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who am i
,???, on Aug 17, 2005 08:43 PM
????? what is DDR 2 ?
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ajay
,guwahati, on Aug 29, 2005 07:12 PM
DDR2-SDRAM is considered an evolutionary upgrade over existing DDR memory. It maintains the same core functions, transferring 64 bits of data twice every clock cycle for an effective transfer rate twice that of the front-side bus (FSB) of a computer system, and an effective bandwidth equal to its speed x 8.
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