Yet another win by VIA. Launched just recently, the VIA Nano procesor and VIA VX800 all-in-one digital media IGP chipset received the ‘Best of Computex’ award by the Taiwan Computer Association and the Taiwan External Trade Council (TAITRA). Here’s a snippet of the press release from VIA:
The judging panel honoured VIA’s entry in the LSI/VLSI […]

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My main reason for buying the Asus Eee PC 900 is its 8.9″ screen and 1024×600 resolution. Having used the 7″ for a few weeks, I find the screen too small for comfort. Equally important to me is the Eee PC 900’s small footprint (225 x 170 x 20~33.8 mm). It’s almost similar in size to the Eee PC 701 (225 × 165 […]

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VIA today announced the launch of the new VIA Nano family of processors. Based on Isaiah architecture, there will be two VIA Nano skus, the VIA Nano L-series processors for mainstream desktop and mobile PC systems and the ultra low voltage U-series for small form factor desktop and ultra mobile devices such as mini-notes.

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To encourage PC makers to use Windows XP Home instead of Linux in the ultra low-cost PCs market, Microsoft is offering its operating system at US$26 for emerging markets and US$32 for developed markets. PC makers participating in its Market Development Agreement can receive an additional discount up to US$10.
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More information has become available with regards to the VIA Isaiah and Intel Atom benchmarks which was posted earlier. For comparison, the performance of Celeron-M 900MHz and Yonah 1.6GHz have been added to the benchmarks.
Eeepcnews.de stated that the Atom processor tested is a Diamondville but some claimed that it’s likely an Intel Silverthorne instead. Check […]

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