The author seems to imply that Nvidia makes a CPU

FTA:
Netbooks and MIDs. VIA says it's the world's only 3-chip solution featuring a discrete GPU. We guess VIA thinks Nvidia peddles its goods only on the Moon, then.

Via offers a 3 chip solution. Cpu, Single chip NB/SB, discreet graphics.

Nvidia doesn't offer a CPU, and is still incapable of a 3 piece set because they only offer seperate NB/SB chips. Cpu+NB+SB+GPU=4.

That's great guys, just compare business back and forths to lurid gossip-page smut. Why not imply sexual favours were involved too; after all that's what everyone else is thinking about when they read about what company did some work with what other company. Hey, maybe you can make up nicknames for some of the companies so that they sound like villains out of sci-fi films.

Seriously, where is a nano based netbook that I can buy in the US? How is VIA going to jump in on the netbook phenomenon if they don't start selling their processor. I have been waiting on the thing for 6 months now.

For me, deal breaker with VIA was unreasonably high price of their mini-itx solution and total lack of open source support for long time and for most part even today.

For many apps it had no sense to use that c*ap, when one can use off-the-shelf board and CPU, downclock and downvolt it and have final solution that is much cheaper, performs much better and runs Linux perfectly- so there are no OS fees...

Even with high prices, someone might go for it if the SW support had been flawless.

And their OS support was legendary even after they declared open sourcing drivers.

I expected that meant that source is available on some server.
It turned out I had to fill a very detailed questionaire about my identity and the reason for request, only to be denied access after review.