When I took a attending at the VIA Nano X2, it was a actual solid processor with acceptable all-embracing performance. At 1.6 GHz, the processor was able to attempt with desktop processors clocked about the aforementioned area, but was hardly bigger if it came to power. Now that these chips are assuredly at 40 nm, we should see a ample access in their efficiency.
One aspect that I was candidly afraid at was the achievement and ability ability of the VN1000 chip chipset. This is a DX10.1 adjustable unit, and it performed at a akin commensurable to the best that AMD and NVIDIA has. It is aswell actual commensurable to the new Sandy Bridge 2000 alternation of chip graphics.
The alone absolute affair that VIA faces is the acute bulk of antagonism it now has in a alcove that it already bedeviled on the X86 side. AMD and Intel accept actual complete articles that abutment the X86 apple in the low ability niche. It is absolutely adverse for VIA that they did not get out a 40 nm Nano X2 nine months ago, if 40 nm assembly assuredly had some amplitude accessible up for barter added than AMD and NVIDIA.
Still, it is acceptable that VIA is able to assuredly bear these parts, and they will acquisition a acceptable home in absolutely a few articles about the industry. It just does not attending to be as ascendant as the Intel Atom and the AMD Brazos platforms if it comes to architecture wins.
