VIA Launches VN800 Chipset

As Laptopical recently reported, the VIA Technologies C7-M processor may break the processor market wide open-or at least give laptop buyers and manufacturers an alternative to Intel and AMD. Now VIA announces the release of a chipset to go with its processor, the VIA VN800. The VN800 is one of the low power, high integration type chipsets that are making […]

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VIA Nano To Ship Two Hundred Thousand Chips In Q

VIA will be producing between 150,000 and 200,000 U225 Nano chipsets for shipment this quarter. Fully 100% of those are slated for the new Samsung NC20. The Nano U225 has a lower clock speed than its main competitor, the Atom N270/N280, at a.3GHz versus 1.6GHz/1.66GHz. However, the FSB (front side bus) is considerably faster on the Nano, with a speed […]

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