Its only a one-liner in a VIA news item over at Digitimes but its good news! They report that VIA will release a VX800 chipset later this year. There’s no more details but if I were a betting man I’d say its based on the VN896 Dx9 and Vista-certified GPU and VT8237 southbridge.
VIA have long been knocked over their lack of progress in the GPU area. The Current Unichrome GPU can only perform DirectX-7 in hardware so its well due for an update and Direct-X 9 should help a lot with applications like Google Earth and games. The GPU also contains Mpeg2/4/WMV9 hardware acceleration as in the existing VX700 chipset. If they manage to slot this into the Mobile-ITX standard then things get really exciting for UMPC designers next year.
The rest of the news item talks about a 500Mhz processor at 1W. Very Interesting for MID-type browser devices at the consumer end of the market.
VIA Introduces 1W Eden @ Digitimes.
