14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that around 10 to 15 percent of the netbooks shipped this year will feature VIA's platform, at least this is what some sources at VIA are reported to have said, according to a Chinese-language Apply Daily report. The company's platform has seen such great adoption courtesy of its low-power consumption, especially given the fact that the vast majority of industry players are moving towards power saving parts.
VIA is known to be planning on moving towards more power-efficient processors next year. In 2008, the chip manufacturer managed to reduce the size and power consumption of its CPUs by 30 percent and 33 percent, respectively. According to the news, the company also announced plans to further lower both size and power drain by 25 percent and 41 percent, respectively.
VIA is already seen as a company that has been focusing for a long time on developing processors that featured low-power consumption. Its Eden series CPUs, which were launched back in 2002, were able to operate without a fan and marked a great success in the embedded and non-PC markets. Ever since, the company has maintained its focus on power-saving, low-power consumption and multi-function integration and managed to come to the market with products quite different from top-end parts made by Intel and AMD.
As soon as the environmentally-friendly trend has seen a wider adoption on the market, VIA's parts began to gain more ground and its CPUs were given more attention from consumers. This year, the company launched its Nano CPU family, which followed the VIA C7 CPU netbook platform, but offered four times the performance of the predecessor while maintaining the same thermal envelope. The Nano processor is paired with the company's VIA VX800 chipset, and together they offer a 42 percent silicon real-estate saving over traditional twin-chip core logic implementations.