Taiwanese chip manufacturer Via Technologies has released a new energy efficient CPU, the Via Nano, which will go head-to-head with Intel's latest mobile processor the Atom.
The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core 2 Duo-compatible but with a tenth of the power requirements, will first reach the market in a fleet of partner mobile Internet devices (MIDs) in late May or early June.
Intel announced this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei that its first working Moorestown platform for mobile internet devices (MIDs) had come out of fabrication.
Intel has unveiled the latest addition to its Atom processor family, aimed at what it sees as the emerging market for low-cost subnotebooks.
Nvidia has announced a line-up of low-powered chipsets that will compete in the same arena as Intel's Atom and Via's Nano processors.
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