Based on the new 785G chip from AMD.
The new 785G is manufactured at 55nm and is coupled with the ACC supporting SB710 southbridge:
The slide from AMD calls the new 785G as an 8-series part, which probably means this is the chipset previously known as RS880 and AMD 880G.
The graphics core was updated to the RV620, which was a higher clocked RV610 - the one present in the 780 and 790GX - manufactured at 55nm. There won't be any more shaders and the higher clock won't be enough to become faster than the 790GX, hence the choice of name.
The updated video engine is also a novelty but it's not expected to be of major significance, given the already good performance of the actual UVD in most codecs. AMD touts some new features like transcoding acceleration (already possible with shaders), PIP, high-quality scaling and Dynamic Contrast but it's of dubious use until actual software that makes use of them is shown.
The motherboard is an AM2+ that's AM3 compatible - only DDR2 will work here. It has an interesting array of features for a micro-ATX board but the 3+1 PWM power supply might struggle with 125W CPUs, if they are supported at all. Sideport memory is present on this model.
We will known more about availability by Computex time.
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