Mini-ITX does double display duty
22 May 2008 | 16:17 BST
VX800 chipset debuts
VIA TECHNOLOGIES today announced the VIA EPIA M700 Mini-ITX board, the first to feature the VX800 chipset, for digital signage and retail display systems.
The board comes with a 1.5GHz or a 1.0GHz fanless C7 processor and a Chrome9 HC3 integrated graphics core for DirectX 9.0 3D graphics and up to six-channel surround sound, while the Chromotion video engine provides hardware video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DivX video, plus a VMR capable HD video processor.
It flings files using two PCI-Express based Gigabit LAN ports and has a front panel DVI port, pin headers for an additional DVI or HDMI port through a daughterboard and support for 18-bit TTL displays.
Digital video input is available through pin headers supporting CCIR-656/601//transport stream video, and there is also an S/PDIF connector.
Storage is taken care of by an IDE port with a shared Type I Compact Flash ports, 2 SATA II ports and up to 6 USB 2.0 ports, two through onboard connectors.
Samples will be available in early June to project customers and in channel distribution later.
L'Inq
Via
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