VIA launches Vista-ready Chipsets for PCs

New Delhi, Feb 27 (UNI) Chipmaker VIA Technologies today announced the launch of its Vista-ready digital media IGP chipset 'VIA CN896' certified by Microsoft, for power efficient embedded and desktop Personal Computers.

The VIA CN896 chipset comes with a VIA Chrome9 HC IGP (integrated graphics processor) featuring a DirectX 9.0 3D accelerator for high performance and a 2D accelerator for productivity applications.

The chromotion video display engine boasts advanced hardware-based video processing and rendering such as MPEG-2 decoding acceleration and picture enhancement through adaptive de-interlacing and video deblocking technologies.

The chipset supports the VIA V4 Bus for the power efficient VIA C7 and VIA Eden embedded processors and VIA C7-D desktop processors, which are recognised by Microsoft as designed for Windows Vista.

''The VIA C7 processor-CN896 chipset combination provides all the flexibility in display options that embedded customers need, within a very low thermal profile,'' said Mr Chewei Lin, Vice President of Product Marketing, VIA Technologies.

The VIA CN896 features a dedicated CRT interface as well as flexibility for additional video ports such as DVI transmitter, LVDS transmitter, SDTV and HDTV TV encoder.

This provides the customers an ability to tailor VIA CN896 systems for use with flat panel displays, a wide variety of LCD panels, TFT color panels, DVI monitors and TV displays, with separate display engines enabling two outputs to display at the same time, with different information and at different resolutions, pixel depths and refresh rates.

It enhances the display options for customers designing thin clients, industrial PCs, point of sale machines, digital signage and other embedded products.

UNI