<p><span style="font-size: small;">Two days ago I flew out to VIA's Centaur headquarters in Austin, Texas to be briefed on a new CPU. When I wrote about VIA's Dual-Core Nano I expected the next time we heard from VIA about CPUs to be about its next-generation microprocessor architecture. While Nano still holds a performance advantage over Atom and Bobcat, it's still missing a number of key architectural innovations that both Intel and AMD have adopted in their current generation hardware (e.g. GPU integration, power gating). <br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Much to my surprise, the meeting wasn't about VIA's next-generation microprocessor architecture but rather the last hurrah for Nano: a quad-core version simply called the VIA QuadCore.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4332/vias-quadcore-nano-gets-bigger" target="_blank">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>