VIA eye-gouges Intel, or hopes to, says Gizmodo

The VIA Nano 3000 series was announced earlier in the week and the news has enjoyed broad coverage from IT media. But there's been no extra new per se about it so I haven't bothered linking to the dozens of sites that have posted their take on the Press Release - until now. Gizmodo have put a chisel in VIA's hands and cried "sick em" at Intel. The Atom processor still enjoys most design wins in the ultra mobile space (netbooks and light notebooks).
"Intel's gotten cocky enough in the space that we don't mind the competition one bit."
It looks like we're not the only ones who'd like to see VIA do some damage :)

VIA launches Nano 3000 series processors

VIA has announced the new VIA Nano 3000 series of processors. This brings two new editions to the L series of Nano processors and four to the U series. The highest speed Nano will now be the 2.0GHz L3100, sporting an idle power of 500mW. The idle power in these top speed processors hasn't dropped from previous models, although the press release from VIA highlights a dramatic 20% reduction of power consumption. Once you get down to the 1.4, 1.3 and 1.2GHz models you see what all the fuss is about. The idle power is down from 200mW to half that at 100mW from previous models of the same speed. The press release does also tout a 20% increase in performance although no figures are provided.

Samples of these new processors are available to OEMs and motherboard manufacturers right now, with mass production not expected until Q1 2010.

VIA has kept the same package as they've used for generations of their CPUs now, NanoBGA2, which means that it's a drop in replacement to upgrade existing designs to cater for the new models.

The new Nano 3000 series are being aimed at light notebooks, desktops, "all-in-one" systems and energy-efficient server designs.