VIA Nano Processor Preview
 

VIA made quite a splash early this year when they announced the Isaiah CPU architecture, which was developed at their Centaur design center. At the time of the announcement, we spoke with VIA's Centaur design center president, Glenn Henry, to get a deeper insight into what VIA had in store with Isaiah, but we weren't given many hard details regarding final clock speeds and specifications, performance, branding, or availability.

http://www.hothardware.com/News/Intr...ano_Processor/

VIA Nano Processor Preview
 

Just two days after announcing it has released an open source model for a new UMPC platform based on its own CPUs and motherboards, Via announced a new Nano processor based on its "Isaiah" architecture.

Via Technologies' low-power x86 Nano processor will be offered alongside its existing, venerable C7 while directly competing with Intel's Atom. The Nano processor family boasts at least four times the performance of the C7, while staying within the same power range and remaining pin-compatible.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Via_...PUs/1212091459

Don't know for sure if it's competition for the Atom which has higher clocks at lower wattage packing more punch

Additional reading material:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Via...Nano,5503.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-the-nano.html
http://www.macmod.com/content/view/1419/243/
http://www.eweek.com/prestitial.php?...3DN%26tab%3Dwn

I always like Ars view on technology, straight to the point and very useful info:)
thanks for the links!