VIA announced a commitment to a 5-year product lifespan for its Eden ESP processor, in order to support the lifecycle requirements of manufacturers using the chip in mobile device and embedded system designs. The company ascribes the growing popularity of its Eden ESP processor in embedded applications to the device's low power consumption, native x86 compatibility, and digital media capabilities.

“The VIA Eden ESP processor is helping to bridge the gap between conventional embedded devices and the PC by providing additional functionality to systems that have traditionally only been single purpose devices,” commented Steven Lee, Special Assistant to the President, VIA Technologies, Inc.

“The VIA Eden Platform boasts an impressive roadmap featuring advanced technologies from all of VIA's diverse product groups that target multiple markets requiring low power and fanless designs, such as digital video recorders, set-top boxes, thin-clients, point of sale systems, Voice over IP (VoIP) systems, video conferencing systems, and industrial PCs,” Lee said. The roadmap includes features such as lower power consumption from faster and more powerful fanless VIA Eden ESP processors, an integrated hardware random number generator, integrated hardware MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 support, 24/192 7.1 surround sound audio, Gigabit Ethernet, HDTV support, RAID, Serial ATA, LVDS and TMDS flat-screen support.

The VIA Eden ESP processor is offered in speeds from 300MHz to 600MHz, with power consumption from 1W to 5W, and is is “fully compatible” with a complete range of Microsoft Windows as well as Linux operating systems, the company said.

The new five-year lifecycle support program applies to all current VIA Eden ESP processors.

 
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