The Via Nano Processor to Compete with Intel’s Atom
Via Technologies has released their newest line of processors called the Nano, designed for lower energy level electronic devices. Other more powerful processors are too hard on batteries for UMPC’s, making this low energy chip ideal for all small notebook, smartphone, and UMPC manufacturers.
This line of processors will be directly competing with Intel’s Atom processors.
Via Technologies claims the Nano will offer up to 2-3 times the performance of Via’s C7 processor line while featuring the same low power requirements.
The Nano is Via’s first line of 64-bit superscalar, speculative out-of-order processors.
The Nano Chips are manufactured by Fujitsu using 65nm process technology, and have 94 million transitors; about twice as many as the previous C7. It measures about 63.3 square millimeters which translates into about 1,000 chips on a 300mm silicon wafer. All Nano processors have 1MB of L2 cache. And best of all, Nano is pin-compatible so upgrading should be easy.
Prices still haven’t been released, but we are hoping to see these processors in action around the third quarter of this year.
[ Via Via ]
