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VIA to Create Pentium 4 'Clone'

Posted by michael on from the lawsuits-galore dept.

PyroMosh writes: "ZDNet is carrying a brief article about VIA's plans to start producing clones of the Pentium 4. VIA's already in legal trouble with Intel and it seems unlikley that this will go unchallenged by the chipmaking juggernaut. The Register is also covering this, and SiliconStrategies.com has an article with a bit more detail."

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  1. Wait a second by bool · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Didn't AMD do something similiar in reverse engineering Intel's chips? Anyone know what legal action came of that?

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  2. 2Ghz chips... by LightningTH · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Why does the world need a 2-GHz system?" quizzed Glenn Henry, president of Via's Centaur Technology Inc. subsidiary in Austin, Tex.

    Quoted from the story, apparently VIA doesn't realize that games are the only real application pushing chips into new speeds. People wants games faster and people want games that are more realistic, by upping the CPU and GPU speeds, we can get to some very stunning graphics.

    Might have to be careful, may result in actually creating the Matrix...Or would we be creating a Matrix inside a Matrix?

  3. The benefits outweigh the costs by weez75 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems as if Via recognizes they will most likely be sued and be forced to forfeit some of their earnings if they clone Intel products. In the face of this, they also seem to feel that they can benefit enough to offset the losses caused by a lawsuit.

    A similar incident occurred with John Deere and Caterpillar about 5 years ago. Caterpillar had figured out that using a rubber-tracked farm tractor gives farmers better yields. John Deere literally stole the concept and accepted the lawsuit because what they learned was so valuable it was worth it!

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  4. Not gonna sell. by billcopc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    VIA can produce all the cpu it likes, I won't be buying any of them. If they still can't produce a stable motherboard chipset after years of research and practice, then how could they manage a completely functional x86 processor core ? I don't think they can do it well enough to chew into Intel.

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