X-bit labs

Started by: Hokum22 | Date 03/26/08

Comments: 5 | Last Comment:  03/27/08

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1. From other websites posted information about this chip two months back or so, it sounded pretty awesome at the time. Low power with a design that seems to be on par with intel core/core2. Now intel atom looks like a threat to this processor..it would be nice to see reviews/comparison between isaiah and atom.

Though the author hit one market, cheap pc and sub laptops, he forgot about embedded computers! Embedded computers is 10x larger market then sublaptops.

Also in asian markets where name doesn;t mean much price does, if isaiah platform is cheaper then an atom platform it will win asia. So it comes down to the chipset used and the graphics chip. Last I knew VIA graphics was better then intels, but intel has a better memory/HD/USB IO.

Just to think is 1 laptop per child program jsut waited one more year, they could had an isiah or atom processor instead of old amd puma junk!

I think Embedded was implied since that is VIA's major point of sale.

and ftw, Isaiah will be very much > then Atom.

The comparison doesn't seem fair.
Intel Atom is an in-order execution CPU, similar to VIA's C3 and C7.

VIA's Isaiah would be better compared to an Intel Celeron (single-core), where both CPUs are out-of-order processors.

Regardless, for once, VIA has a CPU with some balls! (Well, at least on paper).

This little dinky C3 1Ghz Mini-ITX mobo I have needs replacing!
*Patiently waits for dual-core VIA Isaiah Mini-ITX mobo*

2. >Just to think is 1 laptop per child program jsut waited one more year

One year is not "just" in PC industry. And you are comparing AMD "junk" with platforms which are not ready!

The processor inside OLPC is amd Geode LX. These processor were designed around 2003. The point I'm making is that the goal for OLPC was to abmisious for the state of technology at the time of design.

OLPC is not even relaly shipping units to countries due to low demand, and that lawsuit thats out there in nigeria. Sure the wattage draw would be alittle higher with an atom or isiah inside, but the preformance of the computer would be on part with desktop computers. How the current state of the internet with all the java/flash a 500MHz processor is not enough

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