Despite Intel's barrage with its Atom architecture, Via has managed to land a contract with HP for its nano low-power CPU. To be fair, the Via nano is actually good and has surpassed Intel's Atom in many performance benchmarks, even if Atom is lower power. Now, we don't yet know what HP will do with these CPUs. Is it for a successor of the HP mini-note 2133? Only time will tell.
Ultra-mobile PCs are getting all the attention these days, but even if we don't own or want one, is it really possible not to like these cute little machines? The word on the street in Taiwan is that Dell has ordered 1 million UMPCs to local contract manufacturers. The small computers would have solid state drives (SSD) of 4GB or 8GB.
We're still waiting for the official announcement of the Dell Inspiron 910 aka Dell mini-Inspiron aka Dell E.
This little UAV is capable of surveillance missions and even drop a (grenade-sized) explosive device into locations like building interiors. Small and without external blades, it could sneak-in via by a window. I suspect that surveillance is going to be the primary use (yup with HD video and all). Right now, it runs on gas, which is quite noisy, but there is hope that a future electric engine could make it quiet enough to do some serious espionage missions.
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