VIA is getting stronger
And I’m going to say it one more time, the UMPC market will be dominated by VIA soon and it will keep that leadership for at least a year or even more. All depend of how long will take Intel to design something with enough power to run Vista decently in UMPCs and still getting a good battery life. But so far… it seems to me that Intel is too busy fighting for the MID market.
With Hewlett-Packard (HP) said to have ordered 100,000 C7-M ULV processors for its initial mini-note low-cost PC launch, (which is expected to reach 500,000 units in total in 2008) while Gigabyte Technology’s new M700 series UMPC (ultra mobile PC) will also adopt VIA Technologies’ CPUs, the Taiwan-based chipmaker may have a chance of recover from its long series of losses, according to industry watchers.
VIA CPUs to stage comeback in low-cost PC market
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Should add.. until June only… Via’s C7-M processor is right now the only thing dragging down notebooks like the HP Mini Note (as mentioned in most reviews). Intel’s Atom will take-over in June therefore this Via - loving is short lived.
This is similar to the Asus eee dab with linux.. Now with the Windows XP version at the same price,.. Linux is no longer a mainstream choice…
Intel Atom will provide better performance and much better battery life.
How does it compare with the new Intel Atom Chips? Intel has always won the chips War. I hope Via can innovate better chips, currently the chips in UMPC isnt too powerful to use as the main computing power