Thread: VIA's Novel Centaur projected Isaiah CPU computer architecture.

On Wednesday of this week, we acquired to expenditure the more beneficial component of our workday at Centaur engineering that is a wholly owned subsidiary of VIA Technologies. While you might not know the name Centaur, the brand name of "Cyrix" probably does ring a bell and probably strikes fear into the heart of lots partizans. Lots of us remember the Celeron 300A constituting the finish of days for Cyrix where gaming was conceived. Even, the Centaur x86 CPU of the past accept lead what could well be conceived the most retentive life of any x86 CPUs on the planet.


Even today the "C7" lives on in low end desktop organizations and lots upper end mobile and Ultra Mobile PC devices. While owned by VIA, Centaur and its less than 100 employees accept been humming along outside of Austin, Texas for years now essentially bringing on their own under the direction, long-time silicon industry veteran. And as of this year, Centaur and VIA will establish a novel "Isaiah" processor aimed squarely at the low-power high-CPU market place niche’ that has lately been validated by Intel's huge investment in the upcoming Silverthorn CPU.




Interestingly plenty, Silverthorn as well was planned in Austin, Texas.Some of these CPUs are focussed firmly on the UMPC market, although they will doubtless turn up in devices that accept yet to still be conceived.This novel CPU for Centaur and VIA will be an out-of-order superscaler individual core processor at establish. Initially it will not accept SSE4 instructions but that will be added on 1 of it 1st updates later this year and still a dual core edition is possible but not yet planned.


The amazing thing about this new CPU, which we will pertain to as the "CN" (which has yet to be branded, and let's hope VIA arrives up with something more beneficial than "C7" this time round) from here out, fits into the like power envelope as the current C7.