VIA mini-boards force again

VIA also announced today the Mini-ITX mini-small motherboard “EPIA-M850” that for the first time used the new chipset VX900, which has been released for nearly six months, to better support full HD video applications. Previously released EPIA-M830 and EPIA-M840 are based on the VX800 chipset.

The VX900 chipset introduces the next-generation video engine ChromotionHD 2.0, supports Blu-ray high-definition hardware acceleration, and the latest version of H.264, WMV-HD/VC-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DIVX format Full HD hardware acceleration, The output interface supports DisplayPort, HDMI, DVP, VGA, and LVDS/TMDS, and can output dual video. It also integrates Chrome9 HCM graphics core, full support for DX9.0, and 128-bit 2D engine and hardware rotation capabilities.

The size of the EPIA-M850 motherboard is only 17 x 17 cm, two DDR3-1066/800 DIMM memory slots, a maximum capacity of 8GB, a PCI-E x4 slot, two SATA 3Gbps interfaces, onboard VT6130 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet controller, VT1708S high-definition audio encoder, VT1636 LVDS transmitter, back input and output interfaces are PS/2 (key mouse), serial port, VGA, HDMI, RJ-45, four USB 2.0, three audio ports, turn There are also a variety of input and output headers, and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g wireless modules can be plugged in.

The motherboard is directly equipped with a Nano E series processor and can be selected from 1.2GHz and 1.6GHz. The former does not require a fan.

The EPIA-M850 motherboard is mainly targeted at commercial multimedia embedded device OEMs and ODM manufacturers and will be available soon.