As was leaked by Digitimes a while back, VIA have launched a new 64-bit, high-efficiency processor architecture. This is all you really need to know:
The initial products implementing the new VIA Isaiah Architecture will start shipping in the spring of
2008. These processors are built in 65nm technology and provide two to four times the performance of
current VIA processors (at the same GHz) without a commensurate increase in cost and with little—if
any—increase in power consumption.
So is VIA going in the opposite direction to Intel? Keeping the processing power high and retaining their current power-envelope. If that’s the case, we could see some fairly high-end UMPCs with this setup. It’s early days at the moment. I’m looking deeper into it but trying to stay realistic on the availability of this. VIA don’t exactly have the best track record on release dates!
Ultramobile Life have posted an interesting video and gallery.
