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 and 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 pushing." Link to Original Source
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NVIDIA ia really the last hold out as far as open source. VIA should embrace Linux not team up with last of the MS generation.
Closed binaries are for old people.
the reason i love via is that there mini-itx is like linux wounder land! i love it. BUT i do like the idea of haveing a gfx chip.... humm whats that odd ball GPU company? makes custom cards but releases everything with linux support? may even be open source? NOT ati. something with a 'V' or something... thats who via should team up with.... give us some basic 3d so my mini-itx box can play wolfET and similar quake3 based games on 480p res:-D yes!
wait idea (yes it hurt) so this stuff about using your gpu
Go open and enjoy the $ VIA (Score:2)
VIA should embrace Linux not team up with last of the MS generation.
Closed binaries are for old people.
So true that is... (Score:1)