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VIA Isaiah Architecture: World's Most Power Efficient Processors |
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Written by Ben Hall
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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 In late January, I reported the VIA announcement of their new Isaiah Architecture, which promised to deliver a massive increase in raw computing power while maintaining a similar power envelope to previous VIA platforms.
Well, it looks like VIA are still on track to start shipping the new chips in Q2, and more and more details about the, as yet unnamed, processor are starting to come out. Yesterday, I read a good article on CNet that commented on a few of these new details. Of particular interest was the figure of 3.5 watts that was mentioned for TDP. Given the in-order nature of Intel’s Atom processors (which look to have only a slightly lower TDP), I imagine chips based on VIA’s out-of-order, superscalar architecture are going to be very popular and certainly the industry's leading processors in terms of performance per watt when they hit the market.
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Visitor
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Wow, 3.5W TDP only? And still doubling the number-crunching abilities of a C7? So a dual core Isaiah would roughly have the TDP of a current 1.2Ghz C7 while quadruplicating its processor power?
Visitor
Friday, 28 March 2008
What should happen now, with Intel coming in to take his share of the low-power cake, now is that VIA will have to drop the price of their products to a reasonable amount since they are not the only player in the field anymore.
Visitor
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
why that ugly name: "isaia" ?????? they could find much better, I wonder....
Phil
Friday, 13 June 2008
There is nothing wrong with the name.....
Don
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Hopefully, VIA won't limit the form factor, RAM, PCIE etc. board specs the way that Intel is doing with the atom. Likely not, as VIA hasn't got a range
of bigger, faster CPUs to protect.
I like the inverse of Moore's law!
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Saturday, 26 July 2008
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Saturday, 26 July 2008