14 DAY TRIAL // Chipset manufacturer VIA has just unveiled its new VX800 series of chipsets with integrated graphics targeted at the ultra-mobile segment. The new offering features two digital media IGP chipsets packed in 33 x 33-millimeter chips, especially designed for the company's ultra-low voltage processors.
The VIA VX800 chip is primarily aimed at ultra thin and light notebooks, mini PCs and embedded devices, while the ultra low voltage VIA VX800U will pitch at the ultra mobile market, comprised of mini-note, UMPC and UMD devices.
"The explosive growth of the Mini-Note category and the emerging Ultra Mobile Device category has clearly demonstrated the increased importance on low power, high performance, and small footprint," said Richard Brown, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc.
Besides their energy-efficiency, the new chipsets from VIA also come with integrated graphics cores, that are alleged to deliver enhanced graphics, video and memory performance for the more and more popular ultra-mobile PCs and compact x86 computing systems.
The VIA VX800U series is built on VIA Chrome9 HC3 integrated graphics core, fully compatible with Microsoft's DirectX 9 technology, with high-definition video and graphics playback.
The VIA VX800 chip is designed to work with Windows Vista and supports up to 4 GB of DDR2 system memory. The new offerings support both current VIA C7, VIA C7-M and VIA Eden processors, as well as the company's upcoming low-voltage Isaiah CPU, thus delivering a wide range of of performance and price points in the same platform.
"The VIA VX800 Series goes a long way towards maintaining VIA's leadership in the ultra mobile and other key market segments, and allows our customers to bring products with enhanced features and performance to market faster," continued Brown.
The VIA VX800 family comes in two distinct stock keeping units, shaped for different uses. While the VX800, targeted at mini green PCs draws only 5 watts of power at peak capacity, the ultra low voltage VX800U promises to draw no more than 3.5 watts.
Both products will start shipping later this month. However, VIA did not announce pricing for any of the models.