Crysis on your UMPC soon?

Darius Chang | Jan 28, 2008

If there was ever a word to strike fear into the hearts of gaming PCs today, surely it should be Crysis. This first-person shooter is not only the most visually spectacular title to date, it also brings most, if not all, gaming systems to their knees.

So when we heard H]Enthusiast claiming to have seen a low-power chipset running the resource-intensive game, we sat up and took notice. In a nutshell, the latest UMPC platform from VIA (codenamed Isaiah), competitor to Intel's Silverthorn UMPC processor, showcased its 1.8GHz single-core chip running Crysis. Granted, it's probably mated to a high-end graphics chipset. Nonetheless, for a chip with a small thermal envelope, such performance is impressive. Hopefully, it won't be too long before we can start testing UMPCs based on the Isaiah platform.

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