VIA and NVIDIA Working Together For PC Design

Vigile writes "With AMD buying up ATI and Intel working on their own discrete graphics core, it makes sense for NVIDIA and VIA to partner together. It might be surprising, though, that rather than see the rumors of NVIDIA buying VIA come true, the two companies instead agreed to 'partner' on creating a balanced PC design around VIA's Nano processor and NVIDIA's mid-range discrete graphics cards. During a press event in Taiwan, VIA showed Bioshock and Crysis running on the combined platform. They also took the time to introduce a revision to the mini-ITX standard, which Intel has adopted for Atom, that pushes an open hardware and software platform design rather than the ultra-controlled version that Intel is offering."

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Low watt, high performance? Seg fault

[clowds]

It would be grand to be able to buy a low watt, small box gaming machine that doesn't require 6 fans to keep it cool.

However, with the way things are at the moment in the pc gamespace, I'd be pretty cautious expecting any decent performance, even with their Crysis and Bioshock demoes.

I do miss the days when games had 128 multiplayer maps, ran on cheap $200 video cards well and had more story rather than the shinies but I guess that's progress for you. *sigh*

Re:once more...

[sayfawa]

the porn industry is the one pushing the development of computing!

There, fixed.
What, you haven't been watching a lot of CG porn recently? I'm not alone.. am I? :)