VIA's dual-core Nano still on track, but it's not the Nano 3000

We know, we can't imagine how this naming convention could be confusing at all, but VIA's vice president of corporate marketing Richard Brown has stepped forward to clarify things a bit. In short, that Nano 3000 we heard about a few days back will not be dual-core, but the firm is still lining up a dual-core version of its Nano processor in order to totally slay Intel's Atom in the future. According to Mr. Brown: "The Nano 3000 isn't dual-core. It's a different version of the Nano that's based on a more advanced manufacturing process." So, the take-home here is that VIA actually has a couple of new chips in the pipeline worth keeping an eye on, and we're even told that the Q4 release date for the still-elusive dual-core CPU remains solid. CES 2010 sure seems like a swell launching pad, no?

[LloydChiro Posted Jan 6th 2009 12:25PM]

That's the smallest mp3 player I've ever seen!

[Funke Tobias Dr Posted Jan 6th 2009 12:47PM]

Surely I'm not the only one who thinks he looks like Bill Gates.

[n230099 Posted Jan 6th 2009 3:43PM]

I was going to say that this was the ugliest "Asian girl" product demo I'd seen.

[Ken J Posted Jan 6th 2009 1:13PM]

More VIA announcing crap they won't have or can't make. I'm still waiting on that 1W Eden that was "released" nearly a year ago.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2009 3:27PM]

Say Cheese!

[shogunmaster Posted Jan 6th 2009 4:11PM]

Sulu's crazy cousin.