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Many sources assumed that the main advantage of VIA and NVIDIA (union) will become the integrated chipset with directX 10 support , which NVIDIA develop specially for VIA processors .
The ability to accelerate video decoding from blu-ray media can become the prime advantage of VIA+NVIDIA platform above products on base of Intel atom processors : systems on base of present atom processors can in the best case play back video (HD 720p).
On computex 2008 exhibition VIA and NVIDIA companies demonstrated the mini-ITX 2.0 system on base of VIA nano processor with 1.8 GHz frequency and video card geForce 8600 GT, which allow to play Crysis at acceptable speed. Motherboard was based on chipset VIA CN896, it includes one slot PCI express x16 , two slots DIMM, four ports USB 2.0, gigabit network port, two ports serial ATA and one IDE port .
As reports associate, the special NVIDIA chipset for VIA processors will be released in the first quarter 2009. MCP79 will support VIA nano processors with system bus frequency 1333 MHz, and graphic core will possess compatibility with DirectX 10. Related Products :
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