In an exclusive interview with Tim Brown, International Marketing Manager at VIA, Fiona Gatt from VIA Arena raised questions about the future of the OpenBook and the Nano processor. Here’s a snippet of the interview.
Q (Fiona): I understand you can’t make any product announcements in an interview, but do VIA have any OpenBook design […]

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Some of you might have watched the recent Youtube video showing VIA’s Tim Brown taking apart the VIA OpenBook. While it’s interesting to see the innards of the UMPC, it’s also worth noting VIA’s promotional efforts on the OpenBook. Besides creating a dedicated website with OpenBook resources, VIA has created a dissecting video which I […]

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It looks like that Chinese manufacturer Tsinghua TongFang might be first to release a Mini-Note with VIA Nano processor. Presented at Computex 08, the TongFang Imini S1 Mini-Note sported a 1.2GHz VIA Nano processor. The Mini-Note also comes with the VIA VX700 chipset, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB traditional hard-drive.

It’s disappointing that Tsinghua TongFang […]

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Timothy Brown, International Marketing Manager of VIA, talks about some of the VIA C7-M processor-based mini-notes that they have on display at Computex, including the HP 2133 and the VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design.

VIA at Computex Video - Mini-Notes
This second video shows Timothy Brown walking you through the UMDs that they have on display at […]

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Quanta Computer, a major contract manufacturer of some of the world’s biggest laptop brands, was showing a prototype of the VIA OpenBook at WiMax Expo, an exhibition which was held alongside Computex 2008. Opening the system properties of the laptop not only revealed the 1.6GHz C7-M processor and 1 Gb RAM but also Sony’s name […]

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Just a few days after announcing their VIA Mini-Note OpenBook Reference Design, the new platform has won the Computex Taipei design and innovation Gold Award for 2008. Here’s a snippet of the press release from VIA:
Event organizers Computex Taipei and the Taiwan Design Center selected iF International Forum Design GmbH to preside over the award […]

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Engadget has gotten its hands on the VIA OpenBook. Here’s their short review:
We got to spend a little bit of time with a prototype of VIA’s new OpenBook reference design, and while it’s not going to revolutionize anything, VIA does seem to have a pretty good grasp on the balance of value, size and power […]

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These photos of VIA OpenBook were taken from the download section of VIA OpenBook website. Since you need to register an account to access these photos, I thought I will just post them here.

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