Posted on Monday, November 15 2010 @ 21:31 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AnandTech had the opportunity to preview VIA's upcoming Dual Core Nano and VN1000 chipset, you can check it out
over here. The site concludes the dual-core Nano platforms offers better CPU and graphics performance than Intel's Atom, but power consumption and price are still a question mark.
While the dual core Nano improves competitiveness with Intel’s Atom, it’s the VN1000 that’s a huge step forward. These days everyone is talking about graphics and VIA is no exception. The VN1000 integrates S3’s Chrome 520, a brand new DirectX 10 GPU. VIA was light on architectural details other than to state that it has 32 stream processors and 4 texture sampling units. The VN1000 die is nearly as big as the CPU at 100mm^2 on a 65nm process. VIA claims that the 520’s performance is easily good enough for mainstream graphics.
