VIA, a company that has recently revealed rather gloomy sales results for last month, has demonstrated today that the cryptographic performance of its Nano processor proves to be the most power efficient on the market, thanks to its dedicated VIA PadLock Security Engine, a solution that is integrated directly into the processor die.

 

“Fast, power efficient and safe data encryption are quickly becoming a top concern of mobile PC users,” said Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc., Richard Brown. “Data protection and identity theft for lost and stolen devices are issues that are compounded by the growth of the mobile computing market, key areas where the VIA Nano processor can significantly help protect users data.”

 

We all know that, unlike its competitor, the Atom processor developed by Intel, the VIA Nano is yet to become a successful solution for all those small-sized, low-power portable computer systems on the market, such as netbooks, ultra-mobile PCs or mobile Internet devices. With that in mind, VIA is likely to seize every opportunity that comes its way to show off its latest Nano processor, in contrast to Intel's Atom or even to other, more powerful processors on the market.

 

The company announced that, using the SiSoftware Sandra 2009 diagnostic utility for benchmarking a 1.3GHz VIA Nano processor, the Nano managed to perform the cryptographic tests at an impressive speed of 765MB/s of bandwidth. According to VIA, that will set the Nano as a faster processor, by 93%, than a 3.2GHz Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770 CPU, despite using just 5% of the power.

 

“Cryptography has become an important part of our digital life: it allows us to conduct safe transactions online, certify programs and services, keep our data secure and much more.” said C. Adrian Silasi, CTO, SiSoftware. “The speed at which cryptographic operations (encryption, decryption, hashing, signing) can be performed is thus very much important.”

 

The company's PadLock Security Engine built in the VIA Nano processor ensures a secure computing experience, by means of the implementation of extra functions in the processor.