VIA Technologies today announced the launch of the VN896 digital media mobile IGP chipset, for notebooks and the new breed of ultra mobile devices. The new chipset features the VIA Chrome9 HC integrated graphics processor (IGP), coming with DirectX 9.0 3D accelerator and a 2D accelerator.

It comes with the latest generation Chromotion video display engine, featuring advanced video processing, including acceleration for MPEG-2 decoding. It also features LCD panel, CRT and TV-out support, two outputs to display at the same time, with different information at different resolutions, pixel depths and refresh rates.

Other features: FSB of 800/667/533/400 MHz, support to VIA C7-M mobile processors and Intel Pentium M/Core, Solo/Core, Duo/Core2 and Duo super processors, high bandwidth PCI Express ports, one 16-lane PCI Express and one single lane port. Flexible memory options include support for DDR2 667/533/400 or DDR 400/333 with a maximum of 4GB.