VIA's New Nehemiah M10000 Processor Reviewed

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."

Law of chip naming?

[JeffSh]

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"

Oh boy, a VIA chipset and CPU !!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I can have a complete system failure

64KB cache?

[Animats]

That sounds a bit small.

One would hope....

[Organic_Info]

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

Re:FINALLY!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, that's the t-1000 you're thinking of... *har har*

Re:Rocketman, as interpreted by William Shatner

[Anonymous Coward]

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They should have called it...

[rizawbone]

...the "Better Than Ezra".

Re:64KB cache?

[liquidsin]

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

Hardware random number generator?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. given an infinite number of these processors and an infinite amount of time, these things could write code that's identical to SCO's.

More models to come?

[lpret]

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.

Signing off,
Doubting Thomas

Creative Accounting

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a much easier explaination. Via will just keep adding zeros to the name until sales improve.

Introducing the Via Methusela M10^100!

Hardware based random number generator?

[docbrown42]

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?

No Chinese Jews

[Anonymous Coward]

I had no idea there were so many Jews in Hong Kong. (This is not a racial troll, I seriously have never seen a chinese Jew in my life)

I had the same question you did. One day, a friend and I went into a Chinese restaurant to have some lunch. I asked the waiter, "Do you have Chinese Jews?" He answered, "No Chinese Jews. We have apple joos, orange joos, prune joos, but no Chinese joos."

Thank you.

John the Baptist chip

[Anonymous Coward]

The John the Baptist chip is particularly good on headless systems.

Random Noise Generator

[mdechene]

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.

Re:Why Via names stuff after Christian Mythology

[Runny]

Where are my mod points when I need them? You call Christianity a myth now, but even God can forgive such a despicable act if you would only believe and quit ignoring the evidence.

Re:Makes for a great jukebox

[Milo77]

Forget that, I am waiting for the Esther-1 core, although a release date for it has not yet been prophecised...

Re:I suspect

[fobbman]

Yeah, but based on my experience with getting Tabasco sauce in my right eye I don't think that I'll be trying it in my left anytime soon.