DigiTimes announced that VIA Technologies will adopt the 45nm manufacturing process for their processors and they are expected to launch their first dual-core processors by the end next year. According to the same source, it seems like VIA said something about the Isaiah-based processor which could feature a 2GHz core and 800-1333MHz V4 Bus speed, among others. Also, it seems like Fujitsu will manufacture the CPU and they will adopt the 65nm process. In the end, VIA said that they expect to equal the shipments of first-half 2008 with the …

The SpursEngine co-processor chip has just been released for testing purposes, as the Toshiba engineers  believe it is almost ready for common use. The processor was inspired by Sony’s PS3 Cell, and contains a hardware codec that decodes and encodes MPEG-2/H.264 videos and uses 4 processor cores instead of the 8 from Cell.
It was designed to handle video manipulation and graphics processing in real time and can handle all its assigned tasks. The processor already went through tests, like gesture control, HD video transcoding or facial recognition.
The co-processor has a great …

It seems that Intel has found a new goldmine to exploit in the Atom processors, a new generation of chips designed primarily for the mobile market. It is expected that one chip will cost between $6 to $8 in which the production, packaging and shipping prices are included.
The launch of new item is believed to be the biggest product launch of Intel after the release of the Pentium processors. Atom (previously known as Silverthorn) will have a production cost near the one for a 286 CPU, as Intel states, and …

Latest reports suggest that the HP UMPC 2133 will feature VIA Inside, not Intel’s Penryn as previous reports were saying. If this is true, than it’s incredible news for VIA because this is the first time they could succeed with one of the big companies. The good news don’t stop here. It seems like the ultra portable could get an upgrade consisting of Isaiah 2.0Ghz/DX-10 performance. The HP 2133 has been a very popular device but more is expected from the device. We hope to get back to this soon …