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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:25 am    Post subject:
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Surprised
nVidia has a partnership with VIA, right?


Yep, and it's starting to look pretty peachy for them in that mobile/low power market. They seem to have the lowest power consumption IGP also :-

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3288

Twin that with an Isaiah CPU and you have one heck of a basis for a low power mini PC/Laptop that would put an Eee PC to shame.
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:03 am    Post subject:
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VIA's new EPIA PX5000EG 500MHz Pico-ITX board loses the fan
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:39 am    Post subject:
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VIA Launches VIA Nano Processor Family

Power efficient processors based on ‘Isaiah’ architecture designed for optimized performance for mainstream PC markets and new device types.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:34 pm    Post subject:
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Centaur Technology

Have you ever heard of Centaur Technology? You might not have, but as a wholly owned subsidiary of VIA, Centaur Technology, has spent years designing high performance, x86 compatible microprocessors. Centaur Technology has been in the news a lot this year with the announcement of the VIA Isaiah Architecture. The 65 nanometer Isaiah processor was designed with performance per watt in mind and is taken the market by storm since VIA started showing off performance numbers just a few months ago. The main competition for the VIA Isaiah processor would be the Intel Atom processor, which Isaiah is very competitive with. Not bad for a company based in Austin, Texas that has a group of 100 engineers and microprocessor designers!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:17 pm    Post subject:
It looks like the Isaiah will give the Atom a good beating, both for outright performance and performance-per-watt.

It'll unlikely be cost competitive with the Atom though, I doubt anything will be for a while, plus dual core Atoms and the Poulsbo chipset are on their way. But Isaiah + Nvidia still sounds like a great mobile combo.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:08 pm    Post subject:
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VIA Nano Processor White Paper

In case you have a few more questions about the inner workings of the upcoming VIA Nano Processor, we have an internal white paper for you. Has more than a few benchmarks and power numbers noted as well. Good read!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:25 pm    Post subject:
The VIA Nano really does play Crysis... :-

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzI4NDEsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=

That's pretty cool, kind of amazing that VIA actually have some CPU power now... Surprised
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:29 pm    Post subject:
VIA Launches HD & Crysis Capable Atom Rival :-

http://www.trustedreviews.com/cpu-memory/news/2008/05/29/Via-Launches-HD-Crysis-Capable-Nano-CPU/p1

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/nano/

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:04 pm    Post subject:
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How to torture a VIA system:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/vias-px5000eg-pico-itx-motherboard-is-no-match-for-a-hair-dryer/
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:42 pm    Post subject:
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How to torture a VIA system:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/vias-px5000eg-pico-itx-motherboard-is-no-match-for-a-hair-dryer/


It still ran for two weeks without any heatsinks whatsoever... Surprised
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