Digitimes reports that VIA is planning to go 45nm, and that it will join the ranks of dual core processor manufacturers by the end of next year.

Until then, it has revealed some of the features of its Isaiah processor:

• 2GHz processor speed
• 800MHz/1333MHz FSB
• 64K code / 64K data L1 cache
• 1MB L2 cache with 16 way associativity
• 65nm process
• manufactured by Fujitsu
• pin compatible with the C7

The last part is important - as the HP Mini-Note and other popular sub-notebooks use currently use the C7, thus affording them an easy and siginificant performance upgrade.

Via thinks it can ship as many CPU's in the first half of 2008 as it did last year.