14 DAY TRIAL // VIA just announced its participation at the 2011 Digital Signage Expo, which will take place on February 23 and 24 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company planning to showcase the recently introduced eH1 PCI Express add-in-board as well as a number of multi-display solutions.
The VIA eH1 graphics card was designed for various embedded applications, such as digital signage and advertising, POS, POI, gaming, and uses a fully programmable DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenCL ES compatible 64-bit architecture.
Based on an S3 Chrome 5400E graphics processor, VIA's board offers multi-stream 1080p HD video decoding, stereoscopic 3D rendering, dual display outputs (DVI and HDMI) as well as 512MB of DDR3 memory.
“By bringing the industry’s first discrete graphics solutions to digital signage markets, we’re offering a simple upgrade path for any existing systems with a PCIe slot to enter a new realm of graphics and HD content delivery,” said Daniel Wu, vice president, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies.
Visitors at the DSE 2011 will also get the chance to witness various other products, including the company's ARM-based SoC solutions for digital signage applications.
In addition, a wide range of VIA EPIA Mini-ITX mainboard are going to be showcased during the expo, including boards based on the multimedia-focused VIA VX900 chipset and the recently announced VIA Nano X2 dual core processor.
These will be accompanied by various other solutions, such as the VIA VIPRO panel series, which combines an industrial-grade LCD panel with an embedded computing system based on the VIA Eden ULV 1.6GHz or C7 1.0GHz CPU, or the VIA VMPC.
The VMPC is built around an 1GHz VIA C7 processor paired together with 512MB of RAM and Unichrome Pro integrated graphics and the whole system is housed inside a VESA mountable chassis.
A 2.5-inch HDD bay is also present so the PC can be equipped with a wide series of storage solutions.