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SpykeZ

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Posted: Tue, 8th Jul 2014 05:07 Post subject: VIA Isaiah II Gives Intel and AMD Reasons to Worry

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Only the third active licencee of Intel's x86 machine architecture, VIA Technology, is readying its first x86 processor in years, codenamed Isaiah II. This chip is based on a brand new 64-bit x86 core design by VIA and the engineering team it acquired from Centaur Technology, another erstwhile x86 licencee, and features modern instruction sets such as AVX 2.0. VIA began sampling a quad-core processor based on Isaiah II, which was put to live test by the company, at its InfoComm 2014 booth. It was compared to Intel's "Bay Trail" Atom and AMD's "Kabini" Athlon chips. It turns out that the Isaiah II is pretty good, if it comes out soon enough.

The Isaiah II based quad-core chip, featuring 2.00 GHz clock speeds, and 2 MB of L2 cache, was put through SANDRA. The BGA chip was running on a VIA-made motherboard, with its own VIA VX11H chipset. It was compared to AMD Athlon 5350 (quad-core "Jaguar" with 2.05 GHz clocks), and Intel Atom Z3770 (quad-core "Silvermont" with 2.40 GHz clocks). The results are tabulated below. At 2.00 GHz, armed with the latest multimedia and cryptography instruction-sets, VIA's chip is faster than Intel's in most tests, despite lower clocks. It trades blows - and wins - against AMD's chip, in most tests. VIA is expected to launch the first chips based on Isaiah II in late-August, 2014. VIA is hedging its bets with efficient compact PCs, kiosks, and digital signage, with its new chip.

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Wonder what it's going to get priced at

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sabin1981
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Posted: Tue, 8th Jul 2014 12:18 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Yeah, it's the price that's going to be interesting to me. I know the enormous vet bills have wiped me out this year (with another 4000kr coming up ), but I do still plans to build my bartop cabinet and I'm on the lookout for powerful, cheap, x86 procs to build the innards out of. Right now I'm putting pretty much everything on the AMD A10 APUs but if this Via proc comes out cheap enough...

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Frant
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Posted: Tue, 8th Jul 2014 20:48 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

VIA have released VIA Nano CPU's since 2008 (this belongs to that series and is just the latest iteration). This is the first Via Nano they're releasing to attempt to steal some market shares. However, VIA has a rather bad reputation when it comes to CPU's (Cyrix-series anybody? ) but that was a long time ago. May be a contender for handheld devices (tablets etc.) or media-players and so on for low-power non-desktop/non-gaming platforms. Price will definitely be the main factor here. Being faster than two specific competitor CPU's (and who knows anything about the actual tests made, the TDP of the Isaiah II etc?) isn't enough. Perhaps 2-3 months later both Intel and AMD release The AMD Athlon 5380 which is 200MHz faster while having a better power scheduler (and same for Intel). Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! "The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer

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Guy_Incognito

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Posted: Tue, 15th Jul 2014 23:41 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I think they are targeting embedded and not the consumer market with this, x86 is still strong there (because of the existing software).

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