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Many manufacturers make ARM-based industrial-grade systems, e. g. the VIA AMOS 820 or the VIA AMOS 3003.

https://www.viatech.com/en/sys...

https://www.viatech.com/en/sys...

Many manufacturers make ARM-based industrial-grade systems, e. g. the VIA AMOS 820 or the VIA AMOS 3003.

https://www.viatech.com/en/sys...

https://www.viatech.com/en/sys...

As for Via, no idea, but that would raise the question of who inherited the Cyrix/Centaur IP

FTFY. It seems they continue to sell their CPUs, though these designs and processes don't look exactly new. https://www.viatech.com/en/sil...

fuck off. does it make your pecker a little longer and wider if you correct someone's mistakes in a slashdot post? i bet your wife and/or husband wishes it did.

The basis of rational discourse is for people to (calmly) correct mistakes where they find them.

Otherwise, you descend into a mess where any non-factual statement is as valid as any other.

US politics right now.

As for Via, no idea, but that would raise the question of who inherited the Cyrix/Centaur IP

FTFY. It seems they continue to sell their CPUs, though these designs and processes don't look exactly new. https://www.viatech.com/en/sil...

fuck off. does it make your pecker a little longer and wider if you correct someone's mistakes in a slashdot post? i bet your wife and/or husband wishes it did.

The basis of rational discourse is for people to (calmly) correct mistakes where they find them.

Otherwise, you descend into a mess where any non-factual statement is as valid as any other.

As for Via, no idea, but that would raise the question of who inherited the Cyrix/Centaur IP

FTFY. It seems they continue to sell their CPUs, though these designs and processes don't look exactly new. https://www.viatech.com/en/sil...

fuck off. does it make your pecker a little longer and wider if you correct someone's mistakes in a slashdot post? i bet your wife and/or husband wishes it did.

As for Via, no idea, but that would raise the question of who inherited the Cyrix/Centaur IP

FTFY. It seems they continue to sell their CPUs, though these designs and processes don't look exactly new. https://www.viatech.com/en/sil...

Only if you can access that hardware based encryption - which means drivers and kernel support.

But if that's the route you're leaning, there are Nano systems available. Here's one. It was going for $199 pre-order a couple days ago. Just like a Sheevaplug, you can connect a bunch of external HDDs.

I'm inclined to just go for a full size tower like this. 8 drive bays loaded up with Green drives... tons of space, and very little power consumption. If you use 2 drives, an energy efficient motherboard and energy efficient PSU, you're looking at around 25 watts consumption. Add in 6 more drives and that barely increases to ~40 watts. (Unless they're all active at once)

That's pretty good for up to 16TB of space.

Envy has nothing to do with VIA, except that VIA is an integrator so they build the Envy chip into their boards and chipsets.

Those are boards with chipsets for Pentium M "Dothan."

Here's a review for the DFI 855GME-MGF

VIA announced a Turion chipset - for laptops. I'm curious as to what Socket these use (754? 939?) - no mention on the sites I've read.

I believe this is the TV encoder chip used by the EPIA-M and the VT1622M is the one that supports Macrovision.

Anyone know how these will compare the the VIA C3 processors?

The CPU draws 5.7 watts, requires no fan, and is quick enough to handle most computing tasks.

Two words: Eden Platform

Don't see anything about Macrovision on the TV out.. did I miss that ?

Via has it covered with their new mini-ITX board. Macrovision out on the Svideo...

Check out the new mini-ITX platform that VIA has put together. Supposed to be fanless and under $100 with processor. If someone doesn't sit down and develop a Linux based set of appliance firmware, then Microsoft will fill yet another market. 3D will be damn cheap soon enough and will become part of these products.

• DFI Socket 7 motherboard
• 192 Mbyte SDRAM
• AMD K6II/500 CPU
• A 20 Mbyte drive
• El-Cheapo tiny graphics card

The whole system draws less than 50 Watts. (Of course I added a second hard drive to bring power consumption up to 60 Watts later, but it's still pretty good.)

The system runs a custom Linux From Scratch install. A very minimal system, but with a very carefully selected set of services: sshd, Apache, BIND, and Postfix for mail.

The goal (which I achieved) was a UPS hang-time of over 2 hours on a small little UPS. Important for what is my only 24x7 server box.

If I were to build a low-power system today, I'd go for a VIA C3 without any doubt. I've seen several of these systems that run quite nicely without even a CPU fan. That's one less moving part!

If you're sure you can't use the C3 I think you would be better off purchasing a newer celeron, (celeron 1200 and faster) which is similar to the pre-tualatin P3(1.13GHz and up, iirc), but is cheaper and is on a .13 micron process which dramatically reduces power requirements.

Also on a practical note, if the motherboard supports voltage teaks you can lower the voltage to the pci slots, dimms, and cpu. That will reduce power consumption and heat dissapation, which also reduces the amount of power consuming active cooling is needed. Not having enough power to a component can cause instability but shouldn't cause long term harm. As always, change each setting individually to assure dependability. And be sure to do a big stress test before deployment.

I have the same motherboard, so was very interested. :) In the picture, however, those are definately fans attached to the cooler. I think we're hosed.

My next PC will probably have a Cyrix chip and run without a fan. Slow, but sooner or later they'll be faster than my current box (700 MHz Athlon).

Let me know how the foam goes!

Courtesy of ViaHardware, comes this link: http://www.viatech.com/products/KN133.htm.

The chipset is called KN133 (basically a mobile KT133), and offers PowerNow support as well as integrated Savage4 graphics, but no DDR-DRAM. DDR-DRAM is offered only by the mobile ALi MaGiK1 chipset, which so far seems to offer underwhelming performance, and has not been included in any of the current release of Athlon 4-powered notebooks.

Download the latest via 4 in 1 drivers. Verify that DMA is enabled in your disk's properties. I'm running an asus AV7 with 256 megs of viking cas3 memory at cas2 (133mhz) with an athlon 700@800 and a asus V6800 video card (gforce256 DDR) with the latest bios's in the mobo and vid card, with the latest drivers for everything (well, not THE latest, I dont want to reboot). I have win2k on the computer, it is rock solid stable. as of right now I have a month and a half up time. I have a 7200rpm HD, my computer is faster then I can window most of the time right now. Anyhow I'm not specifically an intel or amd freak, but the latest drivers/bios help alot. When I can find a notebook with a gforce2 go, and 32 meg of DDR memory linux is going on my desktop permanantly.

Demo'd at Comdex last November, the KT266 supports AMD's Socket A chip interface, connecting the processor to the rest of the world via a 266MHz frontside bus. The chipset supports up to 266MHz DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM on the memory side for maximum data throughput rate of 2.1GBps, but will also work with PC-133 SDRAM. It can cope with 4GB of RAM, according to VIA's press release, but only 2GB if the company's Web site is to be believed. Go figure...

In any case I can hardly wait for this technology to also be available for the mobile world. AMD and Via are probably working closely together on this, and it would be nice to see some of this for the road warriors out there.

All Socket A Athlons and Durons are multiprocessing enabled. They only require a new chipset to do so. AMD is developing the 760MP for this purpose. It will also support DDR SDRAM. This topic will be discussed in much detail at the Microprocessor Forum next week. VIA may or may not develope a multiprocessor capable chipset for AMD processors. Hotrail was developing a chipset that would support 4 and more processors, but they dropped the project. I'll be covering all news of the 760MP next week at AMDZone, and expect Tuesday to be the big news day if you are interested in the 760MP. There should be a load of new information, and possibly a press release or two.

After a little bit of digging around, I found that VIA is planning to introduce a Socket A chipset which includes SMP support (but only two-way). This chipset will be called the Apollo Pro KX266, and their roadmap has a little schpeil about it. That takes care of the processor (AMD) the chipset (VIA) and I really hope that somebody makes a motherboard to work with this chipset. Also, VIA says that the motherboards which will be based on this should support FireWire - sweet! I'm betting on Asus, Biostar, or Abit to come out with a mobo for the KX266, they currently make mobos for VIA's KX133. I expect to see this!

National can produce chips for other companies. Right now they are producing the Cyrix line of processors for Via Technologies.

National can produce chips for other companies. Right now they are producing the Cyrix line of processors for Via Technologies.

VIA Press release about Joshua

Socket 370 pinout on P6 bus interface

Integrated 64 Kb L1 cache

Integrated mutually exclusive 256 Kb L2 cache

133 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) support

3DNow! (TM) Technology

Enhanced dual pipelined MMX (TM) and FPU

Utilized advanced 0.18 fabrication process

I have Pentium II LX mb I wanted to upgrade. I was going to replace the P2 233Mhz with a Celeron 466 or 500 ppga but think I will hold off to see what happens. It's my fourth computer anyway. I use it for R&D.

Correct, but misleading. Cyrix has been acquired by VIA Technologies of Taiwan, and in fact, they're currently preparing to release a new chip to compete with Celeron. I wouldn't write them off just yet. For more info, check out this page.