VIA has been a long-time maker of competing x86-based products. Their products have not always been well known as their market share is very small due to limited manufacturing abilities and poorly performing products (their x86 FPU was half-clocked until the most recent iteration before Nano). Still, they have kept the pace over the years and have produced processors that require very little power suitable for low-end notebooks and desktop computer system.s And now, they are prepping a 64-bit version, called VIA Nano.
Nano was officially announced in May, 2008, though no individual products have yet been sold. Some websites have had reviews and benchmarks out. VIA’s new Trinity platform, a Mini-ITX 2.0 reference system employing their VX800 low-power chipset and either a Nano or C7 CPU and S3 Chrome graphics allow for DirectX 10.1 and hardware support for Blu-ray and other popular HD video formats using an HDMI interface.
Isaiah, the codename for Nano, is believed to be releasing to the general public in early 2009 as a pin-compatible replacement for existing C7 and C7-M models. It will provide full x86-64 support while also extending performance levels above the previous C7 core design. It uses VIA’s proprietary 800MHz FSB technology (following a licensing dispute with Intel which forced it away from using Intel’s bus architecture), and has been shown to compete really well against Intel’s Atom-based systems, often outperforming them and routinely coming in with better power numbers, despite the 65nm process technology compared to Atom’s 45nm.
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