I remember them being the worst CPUs you could buy in the mid-late 90s. We ran one in a workshop without a heatsink for lols. Smoke came out of it
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VIA are still making CPUs!
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I remember them being the worst CPUs you could buy in the mid-late 90s. We ran one in a workshop without a heatsink for lols. Smoke came out of it
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Urgh. I recall the 233Mhz Cyrix MII in my mum's PC. Such a pitifully slow thing compared to my K6-2, Pentium or Celeron A in the other PCs we had around that time.
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Last time I had a via I had SiS mirage graphics, Yuk.
Where do you think your electronic goods are made at the moment?
With Chinese money they could easily be on par with AMD, wouldn't it be beautiful 3 CPU manufacturers! Samsung then come in on the GPU side of things and we'd be set.
He doesn't know, I doubt he ever looks too see where it's designed and built in.
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Cpu was diffused in Malaysia! Funnily enough not all computer pieces are made in China
Hasn't VIA's x86 license expired (not that it really matters unless they start selling outside China), don't recall hearing about Intel granting them a new one /shrug.
Doesn't really matter with nationalised Chinese companies, they're not out to make any profit they're primary goal is to give people jobs and hopefully break even. It's like with how Gree started out making clones of Toshiba Air Con units under licence in the 90's and today they're the world's #1 manufacturer.
VIA still have that x86 license and I think their old cross-licensing agreement with Intel continues until one of the parties cancels it.
A new thing here is that VIA seems committed to more regular chip releases, they might get some needed market share in some of the more niche markets they're targeting.
A new thing here is that VIA seems committed to more regular chip releases, they might get some needed market share in some of the more niche markets they're targeting.
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I'm sure I must have played a bit of Quake and GTA on the M2. About as fast as a Pentium MMX and 1/2 the MHz.
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Its would be nice to get a third player in the mix, do they still have an X86 licence? what about X86_64? things have moved on they will need that now too.
It's them sis chipsets that still gives me nightmares!
I knew they had the 32bit license , Have they then purchased the 64bit form AMD ?
Things could get interesting.
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My laptop had SIS graphics. For non gaming it was fine. Didn't do few D3D features without major slow down.
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Their chipsets were pretty good at a time when Nvidia had problems with reliability and data corruption.
Their CPUs were never intended to be for enthusiasts, but weren't competitive enough to stay in the mainstream market either. It seems they found a niche in the x86 embedded, but I doubt there's much growth in that market.
Their CPUs were never intended to be for enthusiasts, but weren't competitive enough to stay in the mainstream market either. It seems they found a niche in the x86 embedded, but I doubt there's much growth in that market.
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I do hope it's going to be slot 1. God I miss those.
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Never liked the idea of that, CPU on a "cartridge" so you can't use your own cooler.