14 DAY TRIAL // VIA has just announced that it plans to unveil its new family of low power dual-core Nano X2 processors at the 2011 Embedded System Conference (ESC) that has just opened its gates at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.
The VIA Nano X2 E chips have two out-of-order x86 processing cores that are based on the company's Isaiah architecture which also provides support for 64-bit software.
Each of the two cores features 128KB of Level 1 cache memory as well as 1MB of L2 cache and the CPUs also pack support for technologies like virtualization and VIA's PadLock hardware security.
This includes AES on the fly hardware-based encryption for data sensitive applications.
The VIA Nano X2 E-series CPUs can be paired together with the VIA VX900 and VN1000 chipsets and are also pin compatible with the previous VIA Eden, VIA C7, VIA Nano E-Series, and VIA Eden X2 processors.
Right now, VIA is offering just two models running at speeds of 1.2GHz+ and 1.6GHz+.
Both are built using the 40nm manufacturing process and support various operating systems, including Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows CE and Linux.
VIA Nano X2 E-series processors were designed to be used in embedded systems and come with a component longevity guarantee of seven years.
“The VIA Nano X2 processor arrives at a time when software architectures are now optimized to for multi-thread computing,” commented Richard Brown, VP International Marketing, VIA Technologies.
“Improvements in semi-conductor fabrication means we can now double the number of processor cores while maintaining the same low energy consumption levels that our customers are used to.”
The company hasn't made public any information regarding the pricing of these CPUs, but it is expected to become available soon after the show, until the end of Q2 2011.