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Possible AMD takeover

Lightnix said:
Firstly, Intel is releasing a processor called Silverthorne for that sort of market. It's an in-order execution core so, to be honest, it's going to be a bit crap anyway.

VIA on the other hand is just releasing a processor for that same market with 1MB of L2 cache, an out-of-order execution core and is capable of 3 uOps per cycle, similar to the Athlon 64, except it has a similar ability to fuse instructions like Intel's Core. All this means VIA's next processor is actually going to be a very capable little chip, especially for its market.

Apparently they could run Crysis on it. ;)

Edit: Just thought I'd point this out, unlike VIA and Centaur's previous designs, its floating point unit is very powerful, even up against modern architectures.
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Nice find !! :cool:

I'll be keeping an eye out on this when it comes to market. Might be just the ticket for a powerful, small and silent HTPC ;)
 
I think it could be interesting if IBM buy AMD, dont forget IBM have access to the cell processor with a bit of tweaking that could be a great plus for pc's.
 
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