VIA Technologies has announced the latest VIA EPIA-M800 Mini-ITX and VIA EPIA-N800 Nano-ITX boards. Featuring the 64-bit, high-performance VIA Nano processor, these new embedded boards bring advanced digital multimedia performance to the next wave of embedded devices on forthcoming Windows 7-based technologies.
Devices based on the VIA EPIA-M800 and VIA EPIA-N800 leverage the performance enhancements of the VIA Nano processor, offering an improved user experience with advanced human to machine interaction and a visually stunning multimedia experience through the latest HD codecs and media streaming technologies. The VIA Nano processor is based on the 64-bit, superscalar “Isaiah” architecture, boasting as much as a four-fold performance boost over VIA C7 and VIA Eden processors while remaining within a similar thermal envelope.
“By selecting the VIA Nano processor for the VIA EPIA-M800 and VIA EPIA-N800, we have managed to build on a successful product line and address the needs of the market as we move into 2010,” said Daniel Wu, Vice President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. “These new board designs will help facilitate the gradual transition toward technologies that are creating a new breed of graphically sophisticated and digitally vibrant devices.”
The key to the outstanding multimedia performance of both the VIA EPIA-M800 and VIA EPIA-N800 lies in the VIA VX800 unified chipset. The VIA VX800 features an VIA Chrome9 IGP for DirectX 9.0 3D graphics, up to six-channels of VIA Vinyl HD Audio and the VIA Chromotion video engine, providing advanced hardware video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9 and VC-1 video, plus a VMR-capable HD video processor.
