New VIA x86 CPU Takes Aim At Intel Silverthorne

Kaz writes "While not operating on the same scale as the two major CPU designers, VIA has been gaining traction in the world of UMPCs and thin clients with its Eden and C7 lines of processors. While past architectures have been considerably out-of-date in terms of modern features, the new Isaiah architecture looks to be very competitive with what AMD and Intel have lined up for future ultra-mobile products. It features an out-of-order, superscalar execution core, 64-bit support, virtualization, and even SSE3 — all on a 94M-transistor, 65nm process die. The initial offering will be single-core only, though VIA says that multi-core ability is already designed in. Is Isaiah going to replace your Core 2 system for gaming? No, but it might give Intel's Silverthorne a run for the money."

Comments

Re:Sorry, brother.

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I think Via provided a nice concept, but that's not enough. Given how people here, elsewhere, and including myself, had had a string of troubles with Via hardware over the years, I'm not interested in using their products unless there is no sufficient alternative for the given need.

Re:I've got a C7 running a home email server.

[evilviper]

Seems strange to want lots of high-speed RAM and storage attached to a very, very slow CPU...

Depends on what you mean by low power.

I mean compared to similarly-performing CPUs from other manufacturers.