VIA’s new platform fro HD video playback
VIA isn’t exactly a new kid on the block but thank to Intel’s almost monopoly of the netbook chip market, you don’t hear much from the company these days. But that hasn’t kept them from building new energy efficient chips. The latest VIA paltform combines a VIA Nano CPU with a VIA VX900 graphics processor to enable HD video playback on low power netbooks.
Netbook News got a chance to check out a test system with a 1.2GHz Nano U3100 processor and VX900 graphics chipset with HD Chromation 2.0. Reports claim that the chipset allows you to watch 1080p HD video out of the box. In order to achieve the same thing with an Intel Atom chipset (on Windows at least), you need a media coprocessor like the Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator or a separate graphics card like NVIDIA’s ION platform. The VX900 chipset can handle both local HD content and 1080p HD Flash video streaming from the inernet.
It’ll be a while until the chips will be used though – our guess would sometime in June . It might be a bit longer before we actually start to see them in stores.
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