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 While past architectures have been considerably out-of-date in terms of modern features, the new Isaiah architecture looks to be very competitive with what AMD and Intel have lined up for future ultra-mobile products.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."

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Ooh I love this game:

http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/511/isaiah_arch.jpg [pcper.com]

Re:Power consumption?

[morgan_greywolf]

I want a fully recharged UMPC after two minutes of Seiko Kinetic shaking, baby!

I think in your case, 30 seconds would probably be better. :-P

Re:Power consumption?

[MacarooMac]

What! And risk overheating my unit and suffering a premature installation?

all on a 94M-transistor

[sm62704]

Wow! A 94 meter transistor, that's one big transister! How big is the laptop going to be? Shades of Oldenberg! [wikipedia.org]

-mcgrew
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Re:all on a 94M-transistor

[sm62704]

That's insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!