VIA plans to launch a new processor branded as Antaur for mobile computers in the near future. At the moment the company is tight-lipped about its new CPU product, however the guys over tecCHANNEL web-site managed to find some details about it at CeBIT trade-show.

The Antaur CPU utilises MicroBGA package and is based on the Nemeniah core found in the latest C3 desktop processors. The initial core-speed of the microprocessor will be 1.0GHz with core voltage of 1.25V. Besides, VIA’s Longhaul technology for reduction of power consumption will be utilised in the CPU.

The new generation VIA processors based on the Nemeniah core offer some advantages in performance compared to the original C3 processors on the Samuel 2 core. The new core features 16-stages pipeline to allow higher core-speed, SSE multimedia instructions, StepAhead Advanced Branch Prediction, 64KB of Exclusive 16-way set-associative L2 cache and a full-speed FPU. It also features VIA’s own PadLock Data Encryption Engine, a hardware security feature that is also going to become fashionable in the coming years.

No additional details about the new microprocessors are issued at this time. It is also unknown why VIA decided to brand almost similar CPUs with different names.