29.08.2008 10:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

In VIA, NVidia Trusts

Via is a relatively small company designing and producing CPU, it was heavily quoted in news over the last few months as one of its CPU is powering the famous ASUS eEPC. Via is the main target of the forthcoming Intel ATOM processors. So one side we have AMD, Intel and Via for CPU, and on the other side ADM/ATI and NVidia for GPU. On this side, NVidia is expecting to compete with Intel Larrabee project thanks to its CUDA and GPGPU technologies aiming to use the huge raw processing power of GPU for some intensive tasks. So, to face such competition, NVidia and Via decided to develop some partnership. NVidia will help Via to improve its nano processors. Such collaboration could allow NVidia and Via to offer in the future a hardware based on a mid-class CPU associated to several GPUs, the first one taking care of basic functions, while the second ones will manage display, rendering and heavy tasks. For sure, we are at a technology road-cross as Intel is following the all-CPU strategy, w

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