X-bit labs

Started by: Megamanx00 | Date 01/30/08

Comments: 7 | Last Comment:  01/31/08

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1. Well I don't think it would be fair to compare this chip to any desktop processors. More likely this chip will be found in low cost notebooks. VIA CPUs and chipsets use to be the go to chips for building low cost x86 devices and laptops. Since they haven't updated their chips in a long time though they are even loosing that segment as they aren't in the OLPC XO or the Asus EEE.

2. IM drooling over the prospect of an Isaiha in my laptop.

And if they ever make a dual-core version (the architecture does support it) then I would pay $1,000 for a Isaiha dual core ANYTHING. (12-15")

3. They will definitely give AMD a run.
But a Penryn-derived single-core could hold its own against the new VIA. Yes, VIAs are niche-products designed specifically for what they do, but Intel does have an undisputable technological advantage.

4. Actualy, Intel and AMD are only ahead becouse of physical die size.

The size of via's cpus (just the cpu itself, not the package) is TINY. As are the transistor count compared to intel or AMD.

VIA, if you look at them, have the best performance/watt and size/perfromance ratio out of all the x86 and x86-64 cpus..

5. Ever since having a P3 Tualatin PC based on the Apollo Pro 266T chipset, I've been kind of a VIA fanboy. :)

That thing flew. While an Intel 815 chipset would've limited me to using only up to 512MB of PC133 SDRAM, that Apollo Pro-based board allowed me to pair my P3-S 1400 with up to 3GB of cheap DDR memory.

Overclocked to 1.63GHz and paired with 1GB of PC-2700 and Radeon 9800XT, that rig performed similarly to a 2.4GHz P4! It even played 720p videos in any format fine, with just 45-80% CPU load.
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I'm betting that this new processor from Via/Centaur will be a hit. :)

Its gonna be at least equal with PIII on a clock for clock basis.

It won't be fast as Intel's latest Core 2 line, but its enough to start getting into the low end of Celerons.

6. Price will determine how well these cores will do in the marketplace and going by Via's past pricing policies the obvious choice for astute buyers will unfortunately be Intel platforms

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