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Considering that Via's Nano(the chip itself) uses on the order of 10x the power of Atom and nVidia doesn't exactly have experience with low power motherboards for x86, this doesn't seem like it will work all that well. Via does have the lead in low power chipsets, but I wonder how well they will fare when Intel starts using a modern technology for the chipset. In any case, I really don't see nVidia as being very important in terms of the technology they will bring to the table. Their important contribution will likely be funding.
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1993 AST 25MHz 486SX, VESA local bus video, 4 MB RAM, 170MB HDD, 3.5 & 5.25 floppies
1994 16Bit soundcard
1995 840MB HDD, 16 MB(32bit) SIMM, overclocked to 33MHz
1996 16X CDROM, 486 DX2 50MHz Overdrive processor, overclocked to 66MHz
1997 133MHz Pentium Overdrive processor
1997 Upgraded to Pentium motherboard with 16MB EDO memory, 3D video card.
1998 modem and 180MB HDD
1999 52X CDROM
2001 Retired

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