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VIA's New Nehemiah M10000 Processor Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the low-power-madness dept.

Joseph Wharton writes "Mini-ITX.com has a review of VIA's new Nehemiah M10000 EPIA-M motherboard and processor. Some of the new features include a full-speed floating-point unit (finally!), SSE instructions, 64KB of full-speed L2 cache, and (get this) a hardware-based random number generator. Also, there's IO/APIC support in these new procs, potentially paving the way for dual EPIA boards."

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  1. Law of chip naming? by JeffSh · · Score: 5, Funny

    The name of the processor and chipset shall be inversely porportionate to the actual size of the chipset and chip.

    imagine, when boards are self contained on one microchip, the name will be the "ultra gigaplexor 90000000 duplex teranaxor"

  2. Oh boy, a VIA chipset and CPU !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can have a complete system failure

  3. 64KB cache? by Animats · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sounds a bit small.

    1. Re:64KB cache? by liquidsin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Think so? I'd heard that 64 kb should be enough for everyone...

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  4. One would hope.... by Organic_Info · · Score: 5, Funny

    One would hope they don't host their site on a mini-itx box :)

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  5. They should have called it... by rizawbone · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the "Better Than Ezra".

  6. More models to come? by lpret · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for the 3 Ghz Jesus model to come out. Apparently it would be able "to do miracles!" I don't know about this marketing hype sometimes, you kind of have to see it to believe it.

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  7. Hardware based random number generator? by docbrown42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    and (get this) a hardware-based random number generator

    Oh, so it comes with a pair of fuzzy dice? What about a "Type R" sticker, so it'll SEEM faster?

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  8. Random Noise Generator by mdechene · · Score: 4, Funny

    A hardware based random number generator (RNG) has been added. This creates true random numbers from the random electrical noise on the chip. This is of much use in security applications, allowing a strong cryptographic key to be generated. VIA call this the "PadLock Data Encryption Engine".

    VIA Engineers also note that this was previously a set of registers that they just couldn't iron the crosstalk kinks out of. As such, it was rebranded a feature in classic computer tradition.

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