News Release
VIA Launches PM800 and PM880 IGP Chipsets to Deliver
the Hi-Def™ Visual Experience to the Intel® Pentium®
4 Processor Platform
New chipsets based on revolutionary S3 Graphics UniChrome™
Pro IGP core offer support for HDTV outputs up to 1080p,
hardware MPEG-2 decoding and intelligent video rendering
techniques
Taipei, Taiwan, 12 March 2004 - VIA Technologies, Inc,
a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies
and PC platform solutions, today announced availability
of the VIA PM800 and PM880 chipsets, bringing the unique
Hi-Def visual experience of the S3 Graphics UniChrome
Pro Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) core to the Intel
Pentium 4 processor platform for the first time.
Featuring a high-performance 2D/3D graphics engine and
the revolutionary Chromotion CE Video Display Engine,
UniChrome Pro offers a true Hi-Def visual experience on
all display devices, including CRT and LCD screens, as
well as standard and new generation digital TVs. This
includes groundbreaking support for all HDTV formats,
including the latest "Super" HDTV 1080p displays,
setting a new standard for display support from an IGP
chipset.
The Chromotion CE Video Display Engine also includes
an integrated hardware MPEG-2 decoder, ensuring flawless
DVD playback with ultra-low CPU utilization, and utilizes
advanced video rendering techniques, such as Adaptive
De-interlacing and Video De-blocking, to deliver perfect
playback of interlaced video on the PC.
As more people are turning to their PCs for visual entertainment,
the VIA PM800 and PM880 chipsets meet and exceed the requirements
of the rapidly emerging markets for HDTV-ready Media Center
PCs and small form factor/low profile PCs, as well as
mainstream multimedia PCs, and clearly set new standards
for IGP chipsets in these growing markets.
"The VIA PM800 and PM880 IGP chipsets accommodate
the changing role of the PC, which is rapidly expanding
from a simple productivity role, to delivering a much
broader digital media functionality," commented Richard
Brown, Associate Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies,
Inc. "UniChrome Pro is the first IGP chipset graphics
core to truly meet the challenges this raises, delivering
an outstanding digital media experience regardless of
which display device you are using, while providing excellent
2D/3D graphics performance."
About the VIA PM800 and PM880 Chipsets
In addition to providing unmatched support for HDTV
outputs, flawless DVD playback and intelligent video rendering
techniques through the Chromotion CE Video Display Engine,
the VIA PM800 and PM880's UniChrome Pro IGP graphics core
also delivers exceptional integrated 2D/3D graphics performance.
Featuring dual 128-bit pipelines and an advanced 200MHz
graphics engine with support for up to 64MB of shared
DDR memory, both chipsets also support an external AGP
8X port to allow the flexibility of a graphics card upgrade
if required.
The PM880 features the acclaimed DualStream64™ Dual
Channel DDR 400 memory controller, while the PM800 features
the FastStream64™ DDR memory controller. Combined
with support for the latest memory modules, both chipsets
provide lightning fast memory access, ensuring optimum
system performance.
In combination with the VIA VT8237R South Bridge, the
VIA PM800 and PM880 offer a comprehensive range of integrated
storage, multimedia and connectivity options, including
native Serial ATA and V-RAID, with support for multiple
RAID configurations, as well as support for VIA Vinyl
Audio, and high-throughput Gigabit Ethernet with the VIA
Velocity controller.
The VIA PM800 and PM880 chipsets are part of VIA's unique
Modular Architecture Platform (V-MAP) strategy, which
minimizes design times and time-to-market for motherboard
partners through a flexible, pin-compatible design approach
for VIA core-logic solutions. Motherboard partners are
able to cover multiple market segments with a single design,
and also benefit from a single unified driver base.
The VIA PM800 and PM 880 IGP chipsets are available now,
and motherboards based on them are expected to be available
in Q2 2004. For further product details, please visit
the VIA website at:
www.via.com.tw/en/p4-series/pm800.jsp and
www.via.com.tw/en/p4-series/pm880.jsp respectively. |
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