A few months ago Zotac unveiled a tiny desktop computer powered by a VIA Nano X2 dual core processor. Now it’s on track to go on sale this month in Japan. The Zotac ZBOX Nano-VD01 features a 1.2 GHz VIA Nano X2 U4025 dual core processor with a VIA VX900H chipset and Chrome9 HD graphics […]
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VIA launches Nano X2 E-Series low power chips
Chip maker VIA has unveiled a new version of its Nano X2 processor called the VIA Nano X2 E-Series. It’s a dual core 64-bit chip designed for embedded systems. In other words, you probably won’t find the E-Series in a netbook or tablet anytime soon, but it could be used in televisions, set-top-boxes, point-of-sales systems […]
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Closer look at the VIA Nano X2 dual core chip
VIA launched its new dual core Nano X2 chip this week, and I got a chance to do a brief photo shoot with one of the 40nm little guys last night. Sure, it’s not much to look at, but that little chip is a 1.4 GHz dual core, 64-bit processor which is pin-to-pin compatible with […]
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VIA launches dual core Nano X2 chips
It’s apparently chip week. Hot on the heels of new product announcements from chip-makers Intel, AMD, and Freescale, the folks at VIA have announced a new dual core version of the company’s low power Nano chipset. It’s called the VIA Nano X2, and while this isn’t the first we’ve heard of the new processor, it […]
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VIA introduces dual core Nano processor for low power PCs
It’s been about a year since VIA first introduced the VIA Nano 3000 low power chipset. Now the company is finally starting to offer a dual core version. The folks at Bit-Tech got a chance to take a new VIA Nano Dual Core chip for a spin recently. PC Watch also has some details, including […]
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VIA ARTiGo A1100 nettop reviewed
While the nettop space is currently dominated by small, low power desktop computers with Intel Atom processors, Atom isn’t the only game in town. There are a handful of small form factor desktops with AMD chips, and earlier this year VIA introduced the ARTigo A1100 PC with a low power VIA Nano processor. SlashGear has […]
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VIA plans to launch a dual core Nano chip
Intel has the lion’s share of the netbook market to itself right now, with its Atom chips powering almost every low cost 10 inch notebook available in the US and Europe. But AMD is taking aim at the space, with its current Nile chips and upcoming Ontario chips. And chip-maker VIA also has a new […]
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VIA introduces dual core Nano processor
VIA’s Nano processors haven’t exactly revolutionized the mobile computing space, but the low power Nano chipset has been available to PC makers looking for an alternative to Intel’s Atom platform for the past year or so. This week at Computex, VIA is showing off the next-generation Nano chip, with a dual core processor. The VIA […]
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VIA introduces Nano E-Series processors
Chip maker VIA has introduced a new line of Nano processors. The VIA Nano E-Series chips are 64-bit x86 processors with support for hardware virtualization. The E-Series chips are available with speeds ranging from 800MHz to to 1.8GHz. Theyr’e compatible with VIA’s media processors such as the VX800 and VX855 as well as upcoming VX900 […]
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VIA introduces ARTiGO A1100 barebones nettop
Desktop computers tend to be a bit more hacker-friendly than netbooks. Most have cases that are easily taken apart and expansion ports for extra hard drives, disc drives, memory, and PC cards. But nettops tend to be a bit harder to upgrade since the whole point of a nettop is to cram a low power […]