VIA Technologies has announced a new graphics card designed specifically for the embedded market with the VIA eH1, a DirectX 10.1 compliant, multi-display card that thrusts any system with a PCI Express slot.
The VIA eH1 comes with a three year product longevity guarantee and is the most power-efficient discrete graphics and video solution on the market today, VIA claimed. The VIA eH1 AIB features an advanced DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible 64-bit architecture and offers multi-stream 1080p HD video decoding and stereoscopic 3D rendering capability.
The VIA eH1 is a low profile PCI Express add-in-board designed for next generation embedded applications in a range of segments including digital signage and advertising, POS, POI, gaming or any embedded application where graphics and HD video is streamed on two displays, the vendor said.
The VIA eH1 features the S3 Chrome 5400E GPU and is complimented with 512MB of DDR3 memory.
| VIA eH1 graphics card specifications | |
| Item | Detail |
| Port | PCI Express 2.0 bus interface |
| Memory | 512MB DDR3 |
| Output | Dual-link DVI and HDMI (with HDCP) |
| Resolution | Up to 2560 by 1600 |
Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, January 2011
VIA eH1 graphics card
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