
Via Technologies has unfurled a prototype for a mini notebook that will compete against similar small computers touted by Samsung and Intel, but sell for less.
The Taiwanese company is also showing off motherboards that will appear in smartphones in about a year.
The mini notebook and mobile-phone motherboard–which are being shown at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, this week–are part of Via’s strategy to eke out market share in the portable space. (Via has less than 3 percent of the market.) The company’s C7 processors do not provide as much performance as chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, but the C7 also doesn’t consume a lot of power.