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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 The ARTiGO DIY Builder's kit from VIA hit online stores back in early December. It was fairly well received by the media and press folk who were frankly quite blown away by just how small a PC can get when powered by our Pico-ITX board. Until today, however, I hadn't spotted any concrete reviews of the ARTiGO. This review by ExtremeTech.com caught my eye and made very interesting reading.
Admittedly, when I first heard that this Mini PC could fit inside the optical drive bay of a regular desktop I scratched my head in wonder. Who the hell would want to do that? And what about the cabling? As it turns out, this is exactly the kind of innovation that is getting people excited about the ARTiGO. I now realize my folly. It's a superb idea and one that I'm sure many modders and DIY builders will experiment with. | | Read more... (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 The Lunar Chinese New year has just ended and I'm back in the office at the start of this year of the Rat having enjoyed a week or so of R&R. The Year of the Rat is apparently a time of renewal, hard work and activity, so I'll simply get on with it and tell you about this review of the Zonbu Notebook that caught my eye.
JurassicJon's Blog gives us a glowing evaluation of the new Zonbu Notebook, a product that I have yet to get my hands on. Jon is obviously impressed with the VIA C7-M based notebook PC. It has a 1.5GHz VIA C7-M CPU, a 15.4" WXGA widescreen, uses 512MB of RAM, has a DVD drive, built-in wireless and USB ports and most of what you'd expect from an energy-efficient laptop PC with the added bonus of Zonbu's unique data storage plan. In Jon's own words:
'So far I have been using a Zonbu Notebook for a week, and all I have to say is I love it'. | | Read more... (0 Comments) |
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 One of our engineers here at VIA came across this interesting benchmark from Lavalys, a security and IT company that specializes in software publishing for advanced administration solutions. Everest is a powerful system diagnostics solution used to gauge the performance of hardware in specific applications.
What caught our man's eye was a benchmark for AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) that places the 1.5Ghz VIA C7 CPU above an Intel Quad Core Xeon at 2.3Ghz. The VIA C7 scored 18,038 points while the Server CPU from Intel scored 17,323. The reason for this benchmark result lies in the fact that the VIA C7 uses the VIA PadLock Security Engine. For more details 'read more' below | | Read more... (2 Comments) |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
 Here's an interesting article from [H]ard|OCP.com that takes us deep into the heart of Centaur headquarters in Austin, Texas. [H]ard|OCP writer Kyle Bennet was one of a fortunate few that were given a tour of the Centaur facility were the new Isaiah architecture was designed. What seems to impress Kyle most is the almost family-like atmosphere of a company that designed a CPU architecture from the ground up with far fewer hands at the pump than one would expect for such a venture.
To quote Kyle "Keeping in mind that Centaur is building CPUs up from the design level to actually testing them in-house is an amazing feat for a company with less than 100 employees"
Cheers to Kyle for all the photos and an excellent write-up of the day Centaur open its doors to the world.
Here's the [H]ard|OCP article again. | | Read more... (0 Comments) |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
Introducing the new VIA Isaiah Architecture: An entirely new x86 microarchitecture that promises to bring between two and four times the performance of our current Esther architecture within the same power envelope. Or in plain English, our new CPU design promises to deliver more punch than our current VIA C7 CPU without sucking your battery life.
The announcement of the VIA Isaiah Architecture today means that mobile and power efficient computing just took a leap to the next level. VIA has always sought to provide CPU platforms that focus on providing the best computing performance per watt, and the C7's success in the UMPC, power-efficient desktop, embedded and thin client markets stands a testament to that. So what just changed? Well, as of the middle of this year, the Isaiah Architecture will be a fully realized product, powering those same kinds of devices, using a similar amount of juice as the current VIA C7 but offering an impressive boost in performance.
Well I'm going to step aside and introduce you all to the man responsible for developing the VIA Isaiah Architecture. Mr Glenn Henry, President of Centaur Technology, the design team behind the Isaiah.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
When the gPC from Everex first made its entrance to world a couple of months ago people assumed that it was a Google PC. It wasn't, and that caused some confusion because it always seemed to be described as a PC that was built with Google in mind. I think the easiest way to describe the gPC is something like this: Its an affordable home PC that is designed specifically for users who want to take advantage of today's web-based applications or cloud computing services.
The specs of the gPC may not attract too many power users or gamers but perhaps that is the point. The gPC is a marriage of energy efficiency and online application growth. It is designed to perform a specific task - allow people to do their stuff online. One of the most significant aspects of Everex's VIA C7 based gem was its operating system. This was in essence the where the 'g' in gPC came from - the gOS.
This video was shot at Lunch@Piero's earlier this month and features David Liu, founder of gOS.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
Well it's been a while but here (at last) is the concluding episode of Zonbu Nation. Just to recap: We gave two guys Zonbu Mini PCs to use for week or so to explore what the Zonbu approach to personal computing means to humans both tech savvy and rudimentary. Trent is a time served tech guru who knows more about computers than is generally deemed healthy, while Paul is a regular internet surfing Joe. In this final installment Trent and Paul talk to us about quiet, clean, cloud computing.
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