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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 33 2008

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Aug 17th 2008 No Comments

HP 8730w 8530w 2 More laptops, netbooks and mobile workstations than you could shake the proverbial stick at this week, with fresh offerings (and more than a few rumors) from many of the big companies. HP took the wraps off of three mobile workstations, complete with an amazing 17-inch DreamColor option, while Dell and Lenovo both had a version of their own. Dell went for pure specs, with a maximum 16GB of RAM in their Precision, while Lenovo took a more offbeat view and added a digitizer panel in their W700’s palmrest.

A little more compact, Dell launched their fourth generation Latitude E-series models, and SlashGear was in San Francisco to bring you live images. Dell’s attempt for the headlines included 19hr battery life (on one particular model) and Instant On functionality. All well and good, but Gateway perhaps just eases ahead in the bargain stakes with their new P-7811FX Centrino 2 gaming notebook.

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HP ordering VIA Nano chipsets rumor

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 15th 2008 No Comments

HP have placed an order with VIA for their latest ultramobile chipset, the Nano, according to industry sources. VIA, while declining to name specific buyers, has confirmed that they have received orders from “a certain first-tier notebook vendor” with intent to release a product using the Nano CPU by October 2008. However it’s uncertain whether HP intend to use the Nano in their existing Mini-Note netbook range or in a more mainstream device.

HP VIA Nano deal

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VIA EPIA N700: lowest-profile Nano-ITX board yet

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 15th 2008 1 Comment

via epia n700 VIA have taken the wraps off of another Nano-ITX board, the EPIA N700, the first with the company’s VX800 unified all-in-one media system processor. With a choice of 1.5GHz VIA C7 or 500MHz VIA Eden processors, what makes the N700 so compact is that video, graphics and connectivity are all handled by the VX800 chip. Just 33 x 33m, it includes a VIA Chrome 9 graphics core and HD video processor.

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VIA drop motherboard chipset arm to focus on CPUs

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 11th 2008 No Comments

VIA chipset VIA have confirmed that they will be abandoning their chipset business, concentrating instead on their own x86 processors and integrated motherboards. The move comes, according to Richard Brown, vice president of corporate marketing in Taiwan, as the end-point of a long term transition to processors, prompted by the company’s realisation that Intel and AMD would both corner the market in own-name chipsets and third-party offerings from VIA would be edged out.

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VIA’s Nano high-def claims questioned as Atom gets a video rebuttal

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 4th 2008 2 Comments

Earlier on today we posted about VIA’s anti-Atom video in which the company demonstrated their OpenBook reference design going head to head with an ASUS Eee in a battle of 1080p playback. VIA’s stance was that their 1.3GHz processor was better at rendering the high-definition video than Intel’s 1.6GHz chip, and sure enough the Eee juddered along while the OpenBook was smooth. Now, though, jkkmobile have thrown a spanner into the VIA works, with their own video of an Atom-powered Eee playing the same video clip originally used but without any problems.

VIA Nano vs Intel Atom 2

Check out the video after the cut

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VIA Nano goes head to head with Atom in 1080p playback

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 4th 2008 No Comments

Nothing like some smack-talk to start your week, and VIA have obviously decided they’ve heard enough about Intel’s Atom while their own Nano CPU gets relatively overlooked. Best way to distract attention? Slap some 1080p high-definition video onto both a 1.6GHz Atom-powered ASUS Eee and VIA’s own OpenBook reference design, and video the resulting playback.

VIA Nano vs Intel Atom

Check out VIA’s video after the cut

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VIA Pico-ITX EPIA P700 motherboard for low-profile installs

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 27th 2008 No Comments

VIA have done a little extra shaving and come up with their latest Pico-ITX motherboard, the EPIA P700. By replacing the traditional ports with in-line I/O header pins, there’s been enough room for VIA to include an integrated power adaptor, while still keeping the whole thing down to just 10cm x 7.2cm. Accessory boards add normal ports, or you can simply wire up whichever connections you need.

VIA Pico-ITX EPIA P700

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VIA OpenBook opened-up: connectivity flexibility video demo

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 19th 2008 No Comments

Hopefully VIA know – and sanction- what their marketing team is up to, as Tim Brown could be in some trouble otherwise for taking apart the company’s OpenBook reference budget ultraportable and filming the whole operation. Tim’s intention is to show off the flexibility of the design; rather than soldering all of the connectivity options to the mainboard, which is a common way to save space, the OpenBook uses two industry-standard PCI Express Mini card-slots. That leaves it up to manufacturers adopting the design to chose which WWAN, WiFi, GPS or other options they plug in.

VIA OpenBook opened-up

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AMD 1GHz single-core ultraportable chip in development

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 16th 2008 No Comments

AMD are planning a new, single-core CPU running at just 1GHz, intended to rival Intel’s Atom and VIA’s Nano processors. The chip, confirmed in a presentation slide from the company, would be 64-bit and support AMD’s HyperTransport technology, but have a TDP of just 8W.

AMD new chip slide

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FIC ultraportable with both VIA C7 and Intel Atom options

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 6th 2008 No Comments

Perhaps somebody at VIA forgot to send FIC the OpenBook memo, but the company has just unveiled a new budget ultraportable seemingly based on the previous-gen NanoBook reference design. The notebook is unusual because FIC intend both VIA and Intel powered versions: the CE2A1 will run VIA’s C7 processor while the CW0A1 is based on Intel’s Atom. Both will have an 8.9-inch screen, 160GB hard-drive and a 1.3-megapixel webcam.

FIC CE2A1 & CW0A1