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  • May
  • 30
  • 2008

Introducing the VIA Nano Processor, New Details Emerge

New details have emerged regarding final clock speeds and specifications, performance, branding, and availability of VIA’s Isaiah CPU architecture. Isaiah is now known as the VIA Nano processor and according to the benchmarks it is 1.6x to 3.2x the performance of the C7 clock-for-clock while falling within a similar power envelope.

Although VIA is usually a bit late to the game as far as performance goes, their feature set included with their processors never ceases to amaze me. I remeber when they released the C3 several years ago and showed it playing quake3 without a…

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  • May
  • 21
  • 2008

Nvidia’s GT200 chip to pack about 1 billion transistors

TG Daily stumbled across more details about Nvidias upcoming graphics card, which surely looks more and more like a processing monster. However, not many GT200 chips will actually fit on a 300 mm wafer at TSMC. Nvidia has come up with a huge die measuring 24 x 24 mm, resulting in a die area size of 576 mm2.

Zagreb (Croatia) ? While travelling in Europe we stumbled across more details about Nvidia?s upcoming graphics card, which surely looks more and more like a processing monster to us. The upcoming GeForce GTX 260/280 GPUs are based on the…

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