good news: Nano E-Series is out, Pin-to-pin compatibility with VIA C7 Processors

[mike20030405]

News Release VIA Unveils Nano E-Series at ESC 2010, Readies Embedded Industry for Next-Generation 64-bit Computing - VIA Technologies, Inc.

VIA Nano E-Series Highlights

Available at speeds from 800MHz to 1.8GHz, VIA Nano E-Series processors have guaranteed product longevity of seven years and are built on the successful 64-bit, superscalar architecture that powers the VIA Nano 3000 Series and 2000 Series processors.

All VIA Nano E-Series processors are fully compatible with a range of fully integrated media system processors including the VIA VX800, VIA VX855 and forthcoming VIA VX900 and VIA VN1000 digital media chipsets, offering exceptional hardware acceleration of the most demanding HD video codecs and industry leading 3D graphics capabilities.

* World's most power-efficient out-of-order x86 architecture
* Full support for 64-bit operating systems
* High-performance superscalar processing
* Most efficient speculative floating point algorithm
* Full CPU virtualization support
* Advanced power and thermal management
* Leading-edge hardware security features
* Pin-to-pin compatibility with VIA Nano, VIA C7 and VIA Eden Processors
* DDR2 and DDR3 memory support

Anyone wanna to try out?

[Meins321]

i don't see our north bridge there and do they sell it only with boards? as i haven't seen it on ebay as BGA Replacement, then i would do i definately!

Bios modding would be required to get it recognized then