Linux News: Via embedded chipset merges north-, south-bridges, runs Linux on UMPC
The new CX700 chipset is the second Via chipset to support its relatively new C7 processors. The first, the VN800, also supports Intel Pentium M processors, to give laptop makers "maximum flexibility," the company said last fall when it introduced the VN800.The as-yet-unannounced VX700, quietly demonstrated last month at CeBIT in connection with the launch of Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs, aka "Origami" devices), does for Via's mobile CPUs and chipsets what the CX700 does for its embedded chips. Specifically, it combines the VN800 northbridge and VT8237 southbridge chip features, along with a number of other mobile-oriented functions, according to Via.
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