Is pigeon English what you call broken English? Am I being offensive to anyone? Maybe pigeons?
When I was looking for VIA news I came across this very odd "review" of the Nano DC platform, which seems to have been published after taking a bad translator to a review in a language other than English ...
"These days everybody is articulate about graphics as great as VIA is no exception."
"The dual-core Nano which VIA forsaken off is architecturally matching to the existent Nano. Similar to the dual-core CPUs, DC Nano is literally twin Nano die placed to the single side the single another."
Mmmmm ... I think I'll go looking for another source of VIA news ...
Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
ARTiGO pimped as a good Christmas gift idea
Networkworld has got on the Christmas gift list bandwagon early ... oh no hang on, there's only four weeks to go, so not so early ... and they've recommended the VIA ARTiGO builder kit for "true techies who enjoy a little light tinkering". I have to agree. In Australia you'd have to get one from Pioneer Computers, Tech Buy, Eyo, My Shopping, etc - just Google it and you'll find plenty of options.
Anantech gets a visit from VIA
As Anand Lal Shimpi notes, he hadn't received a visit from a VIA rep in many years, but he was happy and intrigued to get one recently, as VIA launches it Nano DC and VN1000 combo platform.
"Compared to Atom, Nano is a bit of a beast. Both Atom and AMD’s Bobat core can fetch and issue up to two instructions. Nano can do three. Like AMD’s Bobcat, Nano has a full out of order execution engine. Atom, for the time being, is in-order."
Without giving it all away, the review of the platform is actually very positive, with graphics performance, overall performance and power management all getting a good smattering of positives adjectives. Check it out.
"Compared to Atom, Nano is a bit of a beast. Both Atom and AMD’s Bobat core can fetch and issue up to two instructions. Nano can do three. Like AMD’s Bobcat, Nano has a full out of order execution engine. Atom, for the time being, is in-order."
Without giving it all away, the review of the platform is actually very positive, with graphics performance, overall performance and power management all getting a good smattering of positives adjectives. Check it out.
Monday, November 15, 2010
A VIA history before the Nano DC
As the media take their turn at assessin the Nano DC and VN100 chipset - which will bring dual core VIA CPUs to market, PC Perspective have laid out a detailed introduction before they look at the hardware ... a history of VIA from the late 90's until now.
"Arguably VIA’s biggest success was the Apollo Pro+ chipset. This was a product well ahead of its time in terms of features and performance. During this period Intel was trying to push their 800 series chipsets with RAMBUS support, but that particular combination was unpopular due to the extreme price differences between SDRAM and RDRAM. Intel tried to rectify this situation with a Memory Controller Hub which supported PC100 SDRAM. Unfortunately, that hub had some real issues, one of which was corrupted data.
VIA came to the rescue with a true PC133 SDRAM based solution, which also supported (unofficially) the 133 MHz FSB that was used by the Pentium !!! processor. It also was paired to a southbridge which featured ATA-100 support, as well as plenty of USB 1.1 connections. VIA also had quite a bit of success in the AMD market as well with their KT series of chips for both the classic Athlon architecture, and the first examples of the Athlon 64. A combination of increased competition in the AMD market by NVIDIA and ATI, as well as constant legal battles with Intel over the use of their particular front side bus licenses, caused VIA to have a drastic shrink in their chipset business. "
If you're new to the industry or to VIA, it's worth a read. The overall conclusion of the review is good ... a "well designed and balanced setup", although released a little late :/
"Arguably VIA’s biggest success was the Apollo Pro+ chipset. This was a product well ahead of its time in terms of features and performance. During this period Intel was trying to push their 800 series chipsets with RAMBUS support, but that particular combination was unpopular due to the extreme price differences between SDRAM and RDRAM. Intel tried to rectify this situation with a Memory Controller Hub which supported PC100 SDRAM. Unfortunately, that hub had some real issues, one of which was corrupted data.
VIA came to the rescue with a true PC133 SDRAM based solution, which also supported (unofficially) the 133 MHz FSB that was used by the Pentium !!! processor. It also was paired to a southbridge which featured ATA-100 support, as well as plenty of USB 1.1 connections. VIA also had quite a bit of success in the AMD market as well with their KT series of chips for both the classic Athlon architecture, and the first examples of the Athlon 64. A combination of increased competition in the AMD market by NVIDIA and ATI, as well as constant legal battles with Intel over the use of their particular front side bus licenses, caused VIA to have a drastic shrink in their chipset business. "
If you're new to the industry or to VIA, it's worth a read. The overall conclusion of the review is good ... a "well designed and balanced setup", although released a little late :/
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
VIA doubles the cores and retains the same TDP
VIA has unvieled an upgrade to the VIA Nano processor. The VIA Nano DC, which obviously stands for dual core, upgrades from the VIA Nano 65nm process to a 40nm process whilst still keeping the max TDP at 25W (for the 1.8GHz version). Hand in hand with this launch is the new VN1000 integrated media processor which includes DX 10.1 support and just about every display output support you can think of. With this hardware platform, VIA will be aiming at "casual 3D gaming". Source: HotHwardware.
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