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VIA’s $100 tablets are real, and they’re… meh

You know VIA promised that we’d start to see tablets sell for $100 to $200 soon? Well those tablets might not be available at your local Best Buy just yet, but they are real products and VIA is showing off a number of them at its booth at Computex. Engadget grabbed some face time with […]

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What those $100 VIA tablets might look like

You know how chip-maker VIA recently promised that tablets could start hitting the US and other countries this year for about $100 to $150? The company has put out a gallery showing just what some of those tablets based on VIA’s WonderMedia PRIZM SmartTouch platform could look like. A number of these concepts look ind […]

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VIA gets into the ARM-based Smartbook space – Video

There’s been a lot of talk about ARM-based netbooks or “smartbooks” with processors from Qualcomm, Freescale, and NVIDIA. But long before Qualcomm coined the term “smartbook,” WonderMedia was using it to describe the company’s Prizm mini-laptop. WonderMedia is a subsidiary of chip-maker VIA, and the company first showed off the Prizm at CES in January. […]