VIA are still making CPUs!

[beany_bot]

Never liked the idea of that, CPU on a "cartridge" so you can't use your own cooler.

But they look COOL! And everyone knows. If it looks cool, it runs cool.

 

[ubersonic]

Never liked the idea of that, CPU on a "cartridge" so you can't use your own cooler.

You could use custom coolers on Slot 1/2/A fine, it's just they all looked like **** just like the socket 7 coolers did.

*EDIT*

I.E heres an orb cooler on a Slot A Athlon, one of the best coolers around at the time:

 

[AmateurExpert]

it's just they all looked like **** just like the socket 7 coolers did

Never mind that windowed ATX cases weren't a thing back then - the cases were mostly office-compliant beige!

 

[ubersonic]

Never mind that windowed ATX cases weren't a thing back then - the cases were mostly office-compliant beige!

U wot m8?

NB: I know it's Socket A not Slot A, same era.

 

[AmateurExpert]

U wot m8?
[...]
NB: I know it's Socket A not Slot A, same era.

LOL - still got beige-itis at the front though

 

[4K8KW10]

They have started the mass production of the Zhaoxin KX-6000, 8-core, 3GHz, 16nm, ~i5-7400 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1155069.shtml , https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-zhaoxin-kx-6000-core-i5-7400,39694.html

 

[smilingcrow]

They have started the mass production of the Zhaoxin KX-6000, 8-core, 3GHz, 16nm

Someone please tell Trump as I 'look forward' to news of his response.
He seems so out of touch that his response will be to send drones to attack Intel's HQ and grab Lisa Su by the ****y.

 

[humbug]

Someone please tell Trump as I 'look forward' to news of his response.
He seems so out of touch that his response will be to send drones to attack Intel's HQ and grab Lisa Su by the ****y.

Sounds like a fun day.

 

[Alan1969]

It would be nice the have another CPU in the fray.

 

[NinjaCool]

Bring back Motorola CPU's!

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Someone please tell Trump as I 'look forward' to news of his response.
He seems so out of touch that his response will be to send drones to attack Intel's HQ and grab Lisa Su by the ****y.

"Boaby" isn't a banned word, is it?

 

[hlennie]

Cyrix processor used in my first ever build great value think i was playing ultima pagan

 

[4K8KW10]

The power consumption of this new ZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-U6780A @ 2.70 GHz 1 processor, 8 cores is the most important to know.
Benchmarks Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/12754288?baseline=12740853 :

KaiXian KX-U6780A @ 2.70
Single-Core Score 1910
Multi-Core Score 8670

For a comparison http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/5606380 :

Ryzen 3 1200
Single-Core Score 4251
Multi-Core Score 12163

 

[4K8KW10]

https://n.sinaimg.cn/sinacn20190619s/199/w600h399/20190619/0a28-hyrtarw3279396.jpg

ZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-U6780A 2.7GHz https://ranker.sisoftware.co.uk/sho...dae7dfefd8ecddfb89b484a2c7a29faf89fac7ff&l=en

Processor Arithmetic: 71.77GOPS
Processor Multi-Media: 116.47Mpix/s
https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-572719-p-2.html

Ryzen 3 1200 https://ranker.sisoftware.co.uk/sho...d5e2d3e0d0e5d1f785b888aecbae93a385f6cbfb&l=en

Multi-Media Integer 168.87Mpix/s
Multi-Media Long-int 60.31Mpix/s
Multi-Media Quad-int 1.42Mpix/s
Multi-Media Single-float 177.16Mpix/s
Multi-Media Double-float 112.07Mpix/s
Multi-Media Quad-float 4.14Mpix/s


KX-6880 3.0GHz (16nm, 8C/8T, 8MB L2 cache) vs KX-5680 2.0GHz (28nm, 8C/8T, 8MB L2 cache)

SPEC2006 INT: 29.2 vs 19.9 (+ 46,7%)
SPEC2006 INT RATE: 170 vs 115 (+ 47,8%)

KX-6880 3.0GHz (16nm, 8C/8T, 8MB L2 cache) vs ZX-C+ FC-1080 2.0GHz (28nm, 8C/8T, 4MB L2 cache)

SPEC2006 INT: 29.2 vs 16.4 (+ 78%)
SPEC2006 INT RATE: 170 vs 71,8 (+ 136,7%)
https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-572719-p-2.html

 

[mmj_uk]

Despite having awful memories of a VIA Cyrix M2 competition is good even if Chinese chips will probably have more back doors than Harry and Meghan's new £2.4m tax payer funded mansion.

The best experience I ever had as a Cyrix owner was upgrading to an AMD K6-2.

 

[humbug]

Despite having awful memories of a VIA Cyrix M2 competition is good even if Chinese chips will probably have more back doors than Harry and Meghan's new £2.4m tax payer funded mansion.

The best experience I ever had as a Cyrix owner was upgrading to an AMD K6-2.

They will never make it over here anyway, Trump has just force both Intel and AMD to stop licensing IP to China.

 

[nomadd]

Bring back Motorola CPU's!

Cut my first teeth in the world of work writing assembler and C code for 6800's. (NB. that's hundreds, not 68k, for all you youngsters! )

Anyway, screw Via: bring back the NEC V30. Man, I remember that performance swap in my Amstrad PC1512 (I guess it was the AM4 of it's day. )

 

[hominid]

Despite having awful memories of a VIA Cyrix M2 competition is good even if Chinese chips will probably have more back doors than Harry and Meghan's new £2.4m tax payer funded mansion.

No more so that an NSA approved Intel CPU with management engine that is always on and has access to network/memory that is completely hidden to the OS.

I still have somewhere a Cyrix PR 166+ CPU, with MMX technology, in a draw somewhere.. I wrote assembly for my old DX2-66, parts of the game I was trying to write ended up being much faster with hand written assembly than using the compiler - early nineties ish. Learning that stuff back then was soo much fun.

 

[EsaT]

No more so that an NSA approved Intel CPU with management engine that is always on and has access to network/memory that is completely hidden to the OS.

Pretty sure NSA knows also lot more juicier holes than Meltdown/Spectre in Intel CPU.

 

[hominid]

Pretty sure NSA knows also lot more juicier holes than Meltdown/Spectre in Intel CPU.

I meant through the Intel Management Engine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine, rather than the colander of security flaws that they currently, with more in the future no doubt, have.

Oh, and I'm sure that you are right also, I'm sure they still have more holes that no-one knows about.