I think the name makes a lot of sense. VIA Technologies is touting a new reference design for Netbook motherboards calling it the Surfboard C855 Reference Design. The Surfboard is geared to handle 1080p video playback and 8 channel audio while using a low power VIA C7-M processor. The Surfboard C855 can run 1.6GHz [...]
Let’s just call Mark Spoonauer of Laptop Mag not a fan of the Samsung Q1EX UMPC. He’s reviewed the new Samsung Q1EX UMPC, (that features a VIA processor) and well, to be kind finds it lacking. On the one hand I can’t say I’m surprised. All of us here at GBM cocked our eyebrows [...]
VIA is making a big splash this year at CES 2009, culminating in perhaps its most compelling creation to date. The Trinity platform allows for spectacular High Definition video playback using very modest hardware. Gone are the days of massive drains on power and money with what VIA had to show at their Lunch at [...]
Well, folks, right when we thought the netbook craze has started to stale, VIA storms onto the scene at this year’s CES 2009 with a new device from their WonderMedia subsidiary. This device dubbed the Prizm, runs on a 450MHz ARM processor, has 128MB DDRII SDRAM, 512MB Nandflash, can support up to 16GB SD support, [...]
VIA’s Nano is looking to dethrone Intel’s Atom processor as ruler of the netbook world. Tim Brown takes us for a brief tour through the current devices currently available in Asian and European markets and shows us a unique 11.6″ concept netbook that bridges the gap between devices with a small 8.9″ or even 10.2″ [...]
Engadget is has a few sleek shots of the new FreeStyle Dr. Mobile Netbook which features the VIA Nano Processor, the popular Atom’s new competition. VIA contends that the Nano will outperform comparatively matched Intel Atom machines. While the specs of this machine are nothing too different with what we’ve seen of current [...]
Via is getting ready to start some competition with Intel by putting out their own very low powered Dual Core 3000 processor. I didn’t see any specs on the speed, but below you can read what the Cnet News article is saying: The dual-core version of the Via Nano 3000–due in late 2009 or 2010–may [...]
VIA is partnering with Microsoft and a slew of other companies to push mobile computing in emerging markets by forming the Global Mobility Bazaar. VIA is always facing tough sledding when it comes to competing with Intel and this focus on emerging markets (hey, given the way things are going in the US economy these [...]
VIA Technologies isn’t just about chipsets on small mobile devices, they are also into Robotics. The folks at VIA sent along a link to this video taking a look at some robot fun from the Tapei International Robot Show where they showed off VIA EPIA Pico-ITX board equipped Johnny 5 building kit robot and the [...]
Preferring to focus on its Nano chipset line, VIA Tehcnologies is no longer going to produce chipsets for PCs that use Intel and AMD processors. VIA’s Richard Brown told CustomPC that: “One of the main reasons we originally moved into the x86 processor business was because we believed that ultimately the third party chipset market [...]
Earlier this morning, Warner posted about VIA releasing a marketing video showcasing the new Nano going head-to-head with Intel’s Atom. In the VIA-produced video, the Atom burps and staggers as it struggles to play a 1080p demo video whereas the VIA chip runs buttery smooth in comparison. Jkkmobile.com just released his own video of an [...]
Most of the chipset news recently has been all about Intel’s Atom chipset, especially as relates to NetBooks, (or whatever you want to call them.) Well, it looks like VIA, makers of the Nano chipset is fighting back with a new campaign. It features the video below showing a head to head comparison (keep in [...]
You have to say this about VIA Technologies>, they are indeed going for it in their battle for the ultra-portrable space. They’ve just announced an ‘open source’ reference design called the OpenBook Mini-Note, intended to give OEMs an easier path to build mini-notebooks, that of course include VIA’s chipsets. Here’s a snip from the press [...]
Here’s a link to an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle that gives a little background on the battle between Intel and VIA Technologies as they work to get their chips into your ultra-portable device. Taking the tack that Intel’s Atom chipset is aimed squarely at VIA’s efforts to produce low energy consumption chips, [...]
VIA is announcing details on the VX800 chipset for ultra-mobile devices. Aimed at Intel’s Atom, Steve “Chippy” Paine is positing that we won’t be seeing this in MIDs, but more than likely in UMPCs or the ultra-portable devices (think CloudBook). He’s also speculating that the new HP 2133 UMPC will run the VX800. Some of [...]
According to this report from cnet, the new Isaiah chip from Via, designed by subsidiary Centaur and manufactured by Fujitsu, is being sent to OEMs for testing. The new Isaiah chip, which is pin compatible with the C7, is reportedly two to four times faster than the C7 chip. Centaur’s CEO, Glenn Henry, said Via [...]
Here is the second installment of UltraMobileLife.com Weekly News Technorati Tags: Ultra-Mobile PC >
UltraMobileLife is begun a new weekly video recap of ultra-mobile news. In this first edition, they point to my InkShow video review of the Amtek T770 UMPC. Subscribe here and watch the first edition below: Technorati Tags: Via, UltraMobileLife, Amtek T770, InkShow >
During the OQO product upgrade briefing this past Thursday, I hooked up with Via, and they interviewed me to talk about processors, battery life, and my experience with the OQO Model 02 that I purchased. Below that interview, is one they did with OQO’s Dennis Moore and Bob Rosin. Enjoy!
Bjron Stromberg, of Via’s UltraMobileLife blog, recently snagged two UMPC samples, the Via Nanobook and the Packard Bell EasyNote, from VIA’s storage room and holed himself up in a meeting room to shoot this video for us all. Good stuff, Bjorn. Hope your bosses at VIA are good to you when the find this video :-) [...]
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