Performance comparisons of Via Technologies' Nano processor and Intel's Atom chip conducted by several hardware-enthusiast sites confirmed what many industry observers have long suspected: the Taiwanese processor company has produced a chip that outperforms Intel's offering for low-cost computers. "Both the VIA Nano and Intel Atom processors and platforms have their own positives and drawbacks but it was really the Via Nano L2100 processor that impressed me the most," wrote Ryan Shrout, editor-in-chief of PC Perspective, in a review of the two processors."Coming from a very small CPU design team here in the U.S., the Isaiah architecture is able to outperform Intel's similarly priced and placed Atom processor while offering a much more open platform design," he wrote. Shrout's verdict was echoed by reviewers at HardOCP and HotHardware, which also found Via's new processor had more processing muscle than Intel's Atom.
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The VIA sampels were not retail, so no cost+performance figures.
Hardocp did a memory bandwidth test, nice... but the VIA uses a 333mhz DDR2 while Intel had 266mhz DDR2 , way to go.
But in anyway, the lack of cost vs performance figures makes any test done null and void as it offers us no valid points of comparison.
but yea Nano looks promising....
I don't think any vendor, OEM or otherwise, will ever trust them again. I know I won't ever recommend them.
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