200,000 Samsung NC 20 laptops at launch.

I’ve just finished reading this article about the VIA Nano processor.  The article states that the company has shipped 200,000 for the first quarter of the year.

What makes it more interesting that all of these chips are to be used in Samsung NC 20 laptops!  Samsung must be  expecting a high-demand on the machine after the huge success of their NC 10.

The article has a little comparison about the VIA processor verses the Atom:

The Nano U225 has a lower clock speed than its main competitor, the Atom N270/N280, at a.3GHz versus 1.6GHz/1.66GHz. However, the FSB (front side bus) is considerably faster on the Nano, with a speed of 1333MHz as compared to 533MHz/667MHz. Watt for watt, the Nano is expected to be more powerful than the Atom, but it is also expected to use more watts in the process. We can’t be sure to what degree, but the usual trade-off of battery life for performance will probably come into play here.

We have also done our own investigation into the nano processor, you can find the article here.

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