Via announces Android support for x86 SBC
20.05.12
The EITX-3002 offers a wide range of I/O, including HDMI, VGA, and LVDS video outputs, gigabit Ethernet, a touchscreen interface, and a CFast expansion slot. Like most of Via's embedded products, it also runs Linux and a variety of Windows operating systems.
The Android demo video (see farther below) shows Android 2.2 running on the platform using a touchscreen monitor driven by the EITX-3002, and also demonstrates HD video playback. Although the demo showed the board running a Nano X2 E CPU, the board also supports the lower-power Eden X2 , which is billed, without statistics to back it up, as "the world's most power-efficient dual-core processor." (Presumably, the company is referring to x86-based dual core processors.)
Both of these 40nm-fabricated, 64-bit processors are paired with Via's VX900H, a variation on its VX900 multimedia chipset. This offers hardware acceleration for HD video formats including MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1, and WMV9, and also offers dual independent display support, says the company. (For more on the EITX-3002 and Via's processors, see our previous EITX-3002 coverage .)
Source: LinuxDevices.com