nVidia may not necessarily make since if you're Via. They do own the S3 company and have full access to their line of Chrome products; all of the ones they have for sale today can do h.264 onboard. While I'm not sure the mobile product numbers, some of their desktop parts use < 13 watts at full tilt. nVidia can't do that. There's no licensing or royalties to deal with. A Chrome video chip(set) makes much more sense.

I think the deal with nVIDIA on making a solid platform to compete against Atom should have pulled through. Without nVIDIA, VIA's CPU won't stand a change against the Atom : 1) It won't be cheaper than an All-Intel-Atom solution and 2) It won't be more powerful than an Atom-ION platform .

Too bad for VIA :( .