http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/ Engadget Comments for Via launches Isaiah: 64-bit low-power, high-performance processors http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/John]]>Jan 24th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/
Via ftw! Except for anyting that actually runs a computer. Then it's Via for the wtf?]]>Jan 24th 2008 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/
Although Via's past has been.... shaky... I always welcome potential competition into the ring as it can only help spur more development by all...]]>Jan 24th 2008 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/There's a video around somewhere about a VIA C3 cpu showing how it puts out so little heat that it doesn't even need a heatsink.

If there is a comparison between the Intel and AMD offerings along with this--no doubt it'd be run over flat by the power of the Intel and AMD cpus, but when it comes to making a very tiny package (see the whole carpc forums to see what the tiny cpu has done for the pc-in-your-car scene)

Anyway, I can't wait to see this in some consumer products or even a dev board!]]>Jan 24th 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 25th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/the amd-intel duopoly needs to take a lesson from this!]]>Jan 24th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/
I could care less how it does in comparison to the Intel or AMD equivalents, the box can't even keep up with ssh when copying files. I've had to default to arcfour encryption just to get a reasonable speed ( while pegging the CPU at 100% ).

Oh, and if the CPU is not bad enough it's hemmed in by a chipset that is starved for bandwidth and designed by an idiot. The network card is dumb because it's zero copy is not even optimized for IP traffic ( needs 32 byte alignment for zero copy when the IP packets have a 17 byte header ).

Via's best efforts have been to integrate ASIC's into the core to make things like ssh and media less pathetic ( assuming you can find drivers ).]]>Jan 24th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/
Nobody expects this to compete with Intel and AMD's latest and greatest, but it sure beats the hell out of Geode. Silverthorne will be interesting, since it's going back to in order while this is VIA's first out of order chip. Plus it does all sorts of cryptographic computation in hardware, as well as it's random number generator.

Intel has some catching up to do in this market, which isn't to say they won't do it in one generation.]]>Jan 24th 2008 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/
Nobody expects this to compete with Intel and AMD's latest and greatest, but it sure beats the hell out of Geode. Silverthorne will be interesting, since it's going back to in order while this is VIA's first out of order chip. Plus it does all sorts of cryptographic computation in hardware, as well as it's random number generator.

Intel has some catching up to do in this market, which isn't to say they won't do it in one generation.]]>Jan 24th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=511]]>Jan 24th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/via-cpu-isaiah.ars]]>Jan 24th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/
But seriously, these chips are very cool for what they do, and the new ones look like they're going to be very powerful for the power/heat ]]>Jan 24th 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/Jan 24th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/via-launches-isaiah-64-bit-low-power-high-performance-processo/ I gotta say I'm rather impressed with VIA. They got knocked to the bottom of the barrel of the CPU world by Intel and AMD, but instead of letting themselves die out, or forcing the other two to kill them off buy continuing a futile claw for the top, they said, hey let's thrive right here. And they're doing a pretty good job.

As far as what to do with low power/low power consumption processors, what do we do with our full power PCs now that we didn't do 3 - 4 years ago ? I can't really think of anything particularly important. Websurfing ? Word processing ? E-Mail ? IM ? VOIP ? Audio playback ? Video playback ? Video streaming ? P2P transfers ? Casual gaming ? Taxes ? Photo editing / printing ?

I used to do all those things on my P-III 450mhz system...and still do them (in various ways and at various times) on a Celeron 550mhz tablet and a Crusoe 800mhz based ultra portable laptop. They work fine. Of course, I'm not watching Blu-rays or playing Crysis on them, but in general they do fine...

My Barton core Athlon system (circa 2003) that I just retired was clock around 2.0 ghz but ran Vista Business (ie with Aero and such enabled) fine (not zippy, but totally usable). And with lighter OSs like WinXP or Win2K it flew. I could surf the web while copying movie DVDs (DVD9 -> DVD 5) or play Silent Hill 2/3, Halflife 2, or Doom 3 on it and it ran great.

If this new CPU has about that much power, which it sounds like it will, it should do pretty much anything you'd want to do on any kind of system you'd put a cpu like that into. I mean you're not gonna try to play Assasin's Creed on an OQO or the like, are you ?]]>Jan 24th 2008 12:36PM