Digital Home Thoughts: New VIA VX900 Chipset To Support 1080P

"VIA Technologies is talking up its VX900 chipset, and promising that its new "media system processor" (MSP) will offer silky-smooth 1080P playback when paired with a VIA Nano 3000. "VIA's trail-blazing VX900 will bring welcome relief to those pining for the best view of HD video online," said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. "The VIA VX900 represents the most complete solution for HD digital content consumption on the market today."

VIA is promising to demo the chipsets and boards at Computex to be used in netbooks and nettops. The included video is quite impressive. The chipset can handle 1080p video at 80Mbps without any stuttering at all, while never using more the 50% of the CPU. It could make for a really nice netbook. Unfortunately, there is not a ton more info available (such as price) so we will have to wait a while to see if this really can be a competitor to the current top of the line netbooks.