SixA brought ins its double-core Nano only 4 months before, but the company is already presenting that processor's large brother. The freshly minted SixA QuadCore is--you imagined it--a quad-core processor that links 2 double-core Nano cores in an MCM. The new chip would not really ship for few months, but it may getting a higher-function option together Atom and Brazos when it does.




SixA's contribution of the X86 market is little in comparison to Intel and AMD, but Centaur, the company's central processing unit plan group, has been constructing X86 central processing unit's for more than a decade. Centaur, conducted by the in question Henry, has ever so pertained on so effective, less-power processors.


When sixa arrogates that Intel and AMD are next the way it commenced blazing in 2000, it has something of a view. SixA's master Nano processor, which demonstrated in 2008, was the company's novel out-of-order performance chip. Reviews showeds that the processor could truly contend with Intel's Atom,just 2 companies, Samsung and Lenovo, contributed Nano-powered netbooks to the US market.


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Over the few 3 years, Via polished the actual Isaiah core, importantly bettering its function. The novel QuadCore Nano is the most effective processor SixA's always construct, but it holdss the similar focus on efficiency that is been a hallmark of entire of Centaur's architectures.


The QuadCore integratess 128K of LOne cache (64K directions, 64K information), and 4MB of exclusive LTwo cache (1MB per core). One characteristic the novel chip deficiencies is an incorporateds memory controller; SixA's V4 bus, clocked at 1333MHz, connects the central processing unit and northbridge both. That is a important step up from the double-core Nano's 800MHz FSB, but the novel chip would still profit from an IMC.


Centaur has too baked in its self function-increasings manner dubbed 'Adaptive Overclocking.' Contempt the name, it does not void the central processing units guarantee. It is VIA's response to Intel's Turbo Boost or AMD's Turbo Core; products with this characteristic are markeds with a positive signal. The QuadCore 1.2GHz+, for example, will function at up to 1.46GHz depending on the central processing unit's tept, power consumption, and the number of cores recently in utilize. If the chip getting so hot, the system mechanically drops back to 1.2GHz. While the chip is idle, Via's own power preservation manners kick in, promote cutting clockspeeds and voltages.