VIA processors partnered with new GE COM module

The VIA Nano and VIA Eden processors are being paired with a new COM module by General Electric Company, designed to make upgrades and maintenance cost effective for harsh environment scenarios.

"Taking advantage of GE’s extensive experience in developing rugged solutions for military applications, the bCOM6-L1200 is ideal for OEMs designing computing platforms into equipment for industrial or harsh environments to whom reducing the overall design cycle and lowering validation costs are of key importance."

"For systems integrators looking for solutions that deliver high performance coupled with low power consumption, the bCOM6-L1200 offers a range of five VIA Nano and VIA Eden processor options, with performance between 800MHz and 1.2GHz and power consumption between 3.5W and 13.0W. Up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM can be configured, allowing the most demanding applications to be deployed."

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VIA Nano Processor Powers New Lenovo Set Top Box

BesTV New Media and Lenovo launched a new Internet Set Top box in Shanghai last week. Lenovo is a huge brand in China and BesTV apparently handle distribution of 90% of the country's box office content. A third partner is VIA who will be providing the processor and media chip to power the new A30 wonder.

"Further hardware details are scarce at this point, but we do know that the A30 will have a BesTV service providing new and exclusive content, including movies of unknown origin "within a month of their release date," along with picture-in-picture functionality and, of course, internet access. There's mobile functionality too, as your smartphone can serve as both the box's remote and as an additional screen on which to view content. Naturally, Lenovo's not telling how much it'll cost, but our friends in the Far East will be able to pick one up in Q1 of 2012." - Engadget