VIA VT8237A - VIA V-MAP Architecture

As an integral component of VIA's unique V-MAP architecture, the VIA VT8237A has been designed to be fully pin-to-pin compatible with current and future VIA South Bridges, and to enable VIA North Bridge designs across all the major Intel Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ XP, AMD Opteron™, and VIA C3®/Eden™ ESP processors.

Through this approach, OEMs and motherboard vendors can minimize development costs and speed up time to market by consolidating their product lines on a standard but scalable platform that enables them to meet the diverse needs of multiple market segments through the rapid integration of different feature sets. As an added benefit, V-MAP also allows a common VIA Hyperion driver base that optimizes system performance while maintaining full stability and compatibility and facilitates technical support.

Ultra V-Link Interface
Delivering data throughput speeds of up to 1066 MB/s from the South Bridge to the next generation of high performance VIA North Bridge solutions, the Ultra V-Link interface delivers the necessary bandwidth and low latency required by today's increasingly demanding multimedia applications, and also provides headroom for ever increasing CPU and memory bus speeds. Not only does Ultra V-Link speed up data transfer rates, it also addresses potential bottlenecks on the South Bridge that may be created by the growing use of high-speed USB2.0 and 1394 peripherals.

8X V-Link Interface
Through its support for the 8X V-Link interface, delivering data throughput speeds of up to 533MB/sec, the VT8237A is also fully compatible with existing VIA North Bridge solutions, giving OEMs and motherboard manufacturers additional flexibility in integrating new levels of advanced I/O functionality into their current platform designs.

VIA Hyperion 4in1 Drivers
A pioneering unified driver set, the VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers optimize system stability and performance for all systems running Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.