Dobbelkjerne fra VIA i juni 2005

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Dobbelkjerne fra VIA i juni 2005

VIA vil være med i dobbelkjerneklubben og satser på lansering av en x86-prosessor med slike muligheter til sommeren. Selskapet kan dermed bli en av de første med dobbelkjerne x86-prosessor.

 

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Spennende at VIA også kommer med dette. InfoWorld har en interessant artikkel om dette:

 

Via's twin-core processor may upstage AMD, Intel

The twin-core processor is primarily designed to be used in high-density server clusters. Via has demonstrated that two processors can fit onto a small Mini-ITX motherboard and it will be feasible for customers to offer a standard 1U (1.75 inches, 4.4 centimeter) server chassis containing two Mini-ITX motherboards running four twin-core processors, Brown said.

 

Via's twin-core processor contains two pieces of silicon -- each with one Esther processor core on it -- inside a single chip package, Brown said. By comparison, dual-core processors, which are being developed by AMD and Intel, put two cores on a single piece of silicon. Via also has plans to offer a dual-core chip, but that product is not expected to be available any time soon.

 

Announced in May, the Esther cores are manufactured by IBM Corp. using a 90 nanometer process. The 32 bit chips consume 3.5 watts when running at a clock speed of 1GHz and will run at a clock speed of up to 2GHz. Esther also incorporates Via's PadLock security technology that offers hardware-accelerated RSA encryption and support for NX (execution protection) antivirus technology.

 

Via has not finalized the clock speed of the cores that will be used in the twin-core chips, Brown said.

Endret 28. oktober 2004 av snorreh