LAST NANO CHIP, VIA HAS RELEASED A FOLLOW-UP
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At prolonged last, a little eighteen months after a final Nano chip, VIA has expelled a follow-up — and- a rsther than voluptuous concomitant motherboard. The thinly slice itself is a initial in a X2 E-Series of Nano chips, which straps together dual of last-last year's 3000-series Isaiah cores. It's still a low-power member with a TDP around 5 watts, and- it's still targeted during embedded applications and- home drama equipment. Beyond doubling up upon cores, a little tweaks have as if been done to design given a 3000-series's launch in 2009, yet a expect specifications have not nonetheless been released.
As distant as time speeds go, there's a choice of possibly 1.4GHz or 1.6GHz — yet deliberation final season's Nano chips could be clocked to 2GHz, that's not incredibly exciting. The X2 is a local 64-bit chip, which positively sets it detached from a Atom — yet a 2008 and- 2009 Nano chips were 64-bit, too. The X2 additionally has built-in hardware-based AES encryption and- x86 virtualization, dual technologies which leave Intel and- Atom in a dirt — yet again, those have regularly been benefaction upon a Isaiah core. Really, a usually new- thing is which a X2 has dual cores.
On a motherboard side of things, a EPIA-M900 positively delivers upon features. Thanks to a luscious VX900 northbridge and- a ChromotionHD video engine, there's hardware increase in speed for VC-1 (Blu-ray) and- H.264, and- sufficient energy to await 1080p playback though attack a CPU. There's no pointer of either any kind of DirectX or OpenGL is supported, though. On a backplate there's Gigabit LAN, 4 USB 2.0 ports, HDMI and- VGA ports, and- even a sequence pier — and- upon a motherboard itself, there have been singular PCIe x16 and- PCI slots, and- lots of headers for all of a common stuff, together with SPDIF.
Now… what you unequivocally need is a little benchmarks, yet there have been none! The top-of-the-line 3000-series, expelled in Nov 2009, was about 40% faster than a strange Atom N270, which was expelled in Jun 2008 — and- Intel has come a prolonged approach given then. The VIA press recover positively seems to stress which a X2 will be preferred for embedded, kiosk-type applications — and- a actuality which pre-release units haven't been sent to hardware sites for benchmarking would indicate which a X2 isn't starting to be which sparkling in a tender deep grown department.
