Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 18:48 UTC
"VIA has introduced out its latest Nano CPUs, pitching the new 3000 family of low-power processors at makers of thin'n'light laptops and of all-in-one desktops. The Nano 3000 series runs to six processors, clock at between 1GHz and 2GHz. They all sit on an 800MHz system bus. Four U3x00 models consume just 100mW of power when idling - the two L3xx0 Nanos consume 500mW at idle. VIA touted the new parts' support for 64-bit computing, virtualisation and the SSE 4 media processing instructions. Like past VIA processors, the new ones have on-board AES and SHA encryption engine."
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Member since:2007-02-17
With a suitable "netbook" tuned Linux distribution capable of running on ARM and VIA Nano and requiring minimal resources (less than Intel Atom with Windows XP or Windows 7), there may be some real fun coming. I'm starting to be glad to have hold-out on the netbook trend until mid to end of 2010.
Canonical have ported Ubuntu to ARM.
ARM have released a dual-core design, using 250 milliwatts per core, for their Cortex A9 CPU that can run at over 2 Ghz.
You read it right: Dual core. 2Ghz. Half a watt. Runs a full Ubuntu.
Edited 2009-11-04 05:13 UTC
Member since:2007-02-17
With a suitable "netbook" tuned Linux distribution capable of running on ARM and VIA Nano and requiring minimal resources (less than Intel Atom with Windows XP or Windows 7), there may be some real fun coming.
Here is another netbook class machine that is going to ARM.
Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled
http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/negroponte_xo-175_goes_ar...
One might even argue that this is the machine that started the whole netbook thing, in a way.
It is also a machine which might still get deployed in large numbers:
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/400000_cannot_be_wrong.ht...
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2009-01-06
With a suitable "netbook" tuned Linux distribution capable of running on ARM and VIA Nano and requiring minimal resources (less than Intel Atom with Windows XP or Windows 7), there may be some real fun coming.
I'm starting to be glad to have hold-out on the netbook trend until mid to end of 2010.