Rob Beschizza
Gear

CES: VIA Inside

I knew all the right questions to ask the Swiss-accented Eliane Hofmann, VIA Technology’s beautiful and demure representative at last night’s Showstoppers@CES. “Why should I, assuming I was a semiconductor buyer for an OEM, choose Via’s dynamic clock speed reduction technology over Transmeta? Also, where are the cool nano-ITX motherboards?” Now, that’s how you talk […]

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I knew all the right questions to ask the Swiss-accented Eliane Hofmann, VIA Technology's beautiful and demure representative at last night's Showstoppers@CES. "Why should I, assuming I was a semiconductor buyer for an OEM, choose Via's dynamic clock speed reduction technology over Transmeta? Also, where are the cool nano-ITX motherboards?"

Now, that's how you talk to a lady.

Pictured are the latest set of Via-powered UMPCs, the screens smeared with the gum of a thousand nerd fingers freshly emerged from the foodbowls at a nearby fries-n-sausage table.