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| VIA Intros Nano 3000 Netbook, Notebook CPUs |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2009-11-03 18:48:17 |
| "VIA has introduced out its latest Nano CPUs, pitching the new 3000 family of low-power processors at makers of thin'n'light laptops and of all-in-one desktops. The Nano 3000 series runs to six processors, clock at between 1GHz and 2GHz. They all sit on an 800MHz system bus. Four U3x00 models consume just 100mW of power when idling - the two L3xx0 Nanos consume 500mW at idle. VIA touted the new parts' support for 64-bit computing, virtualisation and the SSE 4 media processing instructions. Like past VIA processors, the new ones have on-board AES and SHA encryption engine." |
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| competition |
| By JrezIN on 2009-11-03 18:59:17 |
| nice to see some real competition in this market. I hope real products start to ship soon with these new chips. I'm looking forward to all kinds of benchmarks. |
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| Comment by Wondercool |
| By Wondercool on 2009-11-03 19:27:21 |
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It really sounds like good news but I don't trust VIA's announcements that much anymore. The Nano processor family was announced in May 2008 see for instance: http://www.smallformfactors.com/... And how many Nano based computers do we have right now? 18 months later? I know of only one, the Samsung NC20. And that is too expensive to be a success. There are almost no motherboards based on the Nano on the market. Pity as I like to upgrade my low power VIA C7 server. It's a bit like ARM, in January I saw this awesome Youtube movie showing off a Pegatron ARM based netbook. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l... Where the hell are the ARM and VIA based netbooks?? Still in hope here... Edited 2009-11-03 19:28 UTC |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: Comment by Wondercool |
| By cb88 on 2009-11-03 19:37:36 |
| well the pandoras are about to be released... for preorderers |
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| RE: Comment by Wondercool |
| By phoenix on 2009-11-03 19:42:10 |
| What would be really interesting is if someone came out with a VIA Nano CPU and the nVidia ION chipset-based netbook or HTPC or similar. |
| - Score: 3 |
| The next Atom |
| By geleto on 2009-11-03 19:47:06 |
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Intel's current Atom offering uses an old chipset+graphics which draw much more power than the Atom processor. This allows the current VIA Nano to be at least somewhat competitive. The next-generation Intel Atom will have the graphics and memory controller integrated on the same chip as the CPU, the chipset will be tiny (the motherboard will be 1/3 the size), will not require fans and the whole system will use much less power (hence much smaller batteries will be required). The current-generation Atom netbooks will look big and bulky in comparison to the next-gen ones. In order to compete, Nano 3000 will have to be much, much more efficient than the current gen Nano. The advertised 20% better energy efficiency will not cut it for netbooks. It will be great for nettops, especially if NVidia makes a Nano chipset. Edited 2009-11-03 19:52 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Comment by Wondercool |
| By Wondercool on 2009-11-03 19:55:12 |
| Second that! Would be very interesting, but I don't know if it is possible to mix those 2 technologies. |
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| RE: The next Atom |
| By jgagnon on 2009-11-03 20:36:58 |
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> The current-generation Atom netbooks will look big and bulky in comparison to the next-gen ones. I sure hope they don't shrink my 10" screen and already small keyboard any further (happy Asus EEE 1000HA owner here). :p |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: The next Atom |
| By geleto on 2009-11-03 21:00:10 |
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> I sure hope they don't shrink my 10" screen and already small keyboard any further (happy Asus EEE 1000HA owner here). I have an eeepc 1000h, it weights 3.2 pounds and it could be much slimmer. I hope that my next netbook with a next-gen Atom and an SSD will be <2 pounds, at the same form factor. And speaking of 10" screens - without the bezel the screen could be 11", without changing the size of the netbook. And sadly, the reason for this bezel is not technological : http://www.digitimes.com/news/a2... Edited 2009-11-03 21:03 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Comment by Wondercool |
| By Narishma on 2009-11-03 21:16:23 |
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Your example just confirms his point. The Pandora has been about to be released for more than a year... Edited 2009-11-03 21:16 UTC |
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| VIA Nano.... |
| By truckweb on 2009-11-03 22:16:37 |
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The only Netbook we saw with a VIA processor was the first (costly) Netbook from HP and it was not even a Nano CPU. Since then, nothing. VIA can brag all they want about their Nano CPU but nobody is using them. Even AMD seems to have problem selling their Neo CPU for low power laptop. Intel is eating everybody with the ATOM, even more so with the nVidia ION chipset. |
| - Score: 2 |
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