VIA Technologies announced the VIA Nano X2, a new dual-core processor on Jan 4. These are available to OEMs and motherboard makers. It is built on 40 nm technology and is part of the VIA's Isiah(64 bit) architecture.
VIA has been a Intel compatible processor maker for quite some time. This processor too is compatible and also covers the superset SSE4 or the Streaming SIMD extensions. As published by Intel this extension set contains some 47 (SSE 4.1)+ 7(SSE 4.2) instructions. These are completely implemented in the core i7 for the first time. The new processor is geared for mainstream PC markets including desktops, notebooks and all-in-one solutions. Looks like VIA is determined to keep up with the Joneses, the Intels and the AMDs of this world in the mainstream computing platforms.
This is a two core processor and features two out-of-order x86 execution units/cores. 64 bit support is available natively. It also include VIA's Padlock security features as well as VT CPU virtualization technology. Systems using these chips should start appearing Q1 of this year.
VIA Reveals New Nano X2 Dual-Core Processor
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