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|  | Hand held gaming
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
"An enterprising user put a Nintendo 64 emulator on his TabletKiosk eo UMPC v7110 and loaded up Super Smash Brothers. This really shows that the UMPC is quite a powerful handheld entertainment system. The key layout lends itself well to gameplay and there's plenty of games that will play well on the system. Not only that but movies play very well on the 7" screen." Check out the embedded link to the YouTube video at UltraMobileLife.com. |   |
| "VIA has kept plugging away" - pays off
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
ZDNet's John Spooner contemplates VIA's recent design win with HP in China: "The chipmaker is best-known for its chipsets. However, its C7 processor line has caught on in some areas. One of those areas is in low-price notebooks. Several manufacturers have adopted the C7-M for their machines. Wal-Mart, for one, is offering an Everex StepNote notebook with a 1.5GHz C7-M for $498." He goes on to speculate: "Will HP create a trend with its dx2020? It remains to be seen. One thing is for sure. PC makers are offering small, low power desktops for markets such as China in an effort to differentiate." | |
| | VIA scores big with HP deal
Monday, April 16, 2007
"Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. may be locked in a vicious price war over desktop and mobile chips, but that hasn't stopped Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. from gaining ground in the market with its focus on low-cost processors that don't draw much power.The latest win for the Taiwanese chip company came from Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest PC maker, which plans to sell a low-power desktop PC in China based on a Via microprocessor. HP uses Via chips for thin-client computers, but this is the first time the company has put a Via processor inside a full-fledged PC. The Compaq dx2020, unveiled on Friday, is based on Via's 1.5GHz C-7D processor, which consumes a miserly 20 watts of power or less, and is designed for corporate users, rather than consumers. The new PC is a significant design win for the Taiwanese semiconductor company and an important endorsement of its focus on the production of energy-efficient processors. The dx2020 is also the first desktop PC from a top-tier vendor that's based on a Via processor." Source: WashingtonPost.com. | |
| 3 updated drivers today:
Monday, April 16, 2007
- VIA Rhine LAN driver, v3.67 for VT6105M, VT6105/06 series, VT6107, VT823x series, and VT8251 with Windows 2000/svr2003/XP/Vista 32 and 64bit
- P4M800Pro/P4M800CE/VN800 XPDM display driver v20.0.01c for Windows Vista 32 bit
- VX700/M2 display driver v16.94.53.05 for Vista 32 bit, designed specifically for UMPCs
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| | No more Windows XP on new machines
Monday, April 16, 2007
Microsoft apparently intends on releasing a mandate that no new PCs can ship with Windows XP pre-installed as of January next year. "The move may not sit well with some, especially small business customers who don't tend to upgrade PCs in droves and might not want to mix and match Vista and XP systems. Dell told APC that it intends to continue pre-loading Windows XP on its Dimension and Inspiron machines until the summer—a good few months before the Microsoft deadline. By then, Dell could also start offering Linux-based desktops and laptops as it promised late last month, which may provide an escape route for users who don't want to make the move to Microsoft's new OS." Source: TechReport.com. | |
| HP and VIA Launch New Commercial PC for China
Friday, April 13, 2007
Official VIA Press Release reads: "Beijing, China, 13 April 2007 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, and HP today unveiled the HP Compaq dx2020, a highly energy efficient commercial PC for the China market powered by the VIA C7-D desktop processor.Recognizing the need to modernize in order to be competitive on the world stage, China’s enterprise sector is seeing rapid adoption of computer technology. The HP Compaq dx2020 PC meets the needs of businesses across the commercial spectrum, with the added assurance of HP’s renowned manufacturing quality for greater system reliability and lower maintenance costs. Environmentally sustainable computing is a key element of system design. Fully RoHS-compliant, the HP Compaq dx2020 features the power efficient 1.5GHz VIA C7-D processor, the world’s first carbon free processor with a maximum power of just 20 watts for much lower electricity use than traditional PCs, and has achieved certification by the CECP, the China Government’s key energy rating agency, for its highly efficient operation." Read more about this exciting announcement here. | |
| LAN driver update
Friday, April 13, 2007
The VIA Velocity family driver has been updated to version 3.0. It supports the VT6122/6120/6130/6132 Gigabit Ethernet controllers under Windows XP Embedded SP2, Windows XP 64-Bit, Linux XFree86 (Not distribution-specific), Windows CE.net 6.0, Windows Vista 32-Bit, Windows Vista 64-Bit, Windows XP Embedded, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. | |
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