Via makes way for 64-bit chips
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Chipmaker's Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.Images: Isaiah architecture up close
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At a meeting of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in Santa Clara later this afternoon, engineers from Intel are slated to demonstrate a working version of a conceptual CPU. As promised during the last Intel Developers' Forum, this concept CPU will incorporate 80 cores using an experimental "network-on-a-chip" architecture.
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The motherboard's components are changing, but the chipset will survive integration with CPU.
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Blog: The graphics chipmaker has a new lineup of chips that can be plugged into servers or workstations to boost the performance of scientific computing applications.
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VIA Technologies has announced details of its 64-bit architecture based Isaiah processor core with the engineering code name &#39;CN&#39;.
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AMD&#39;s dual-core AMD64 chips will provide instructions compatible with Intel&#39;s SSE 3 technology, the chip maker announced at the Microprocessor Forum yesterday.
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Via Technologies is not likely to ship its supersmall&#160;Mobile ITX motherboard, aimed at ultramobile PCs (UMPCs) and other light portable devices, in production volume until next year, company officials said here at the CES show Monday.The company attracted industry attention when it unveiled the board at Computex in Taipei last June, declaring that it would find its way into markets this year.But &quot;manufacturability issues&quot; will likely prevent the board from being used in commercially launched devices this year, according to Alp Sezen, a sales director for Via based in Fremont, California. Via expects to announce the Mobile ITX production schedule at this year&#39;s Computex, and will probably just manage to ship sample boards by the end of the fourth quarter, he said.&quot;It&#39;s normal to take about a year between announcing a board to production,&quot; he said. He acknowledged, however, that ultimately in the case of the Mobile ITX, the time between its unveiling and production is going to be more than 18 months.Like prototypes running last year, current Mobile ITX boards use 1GHZ CZ-M ULV (ultra low voltage processors) and CX700 chip sets. The board measures 7.5 centimeters by 4.5 cm -- smaller than a credit card -- and to get it that small, the spaces between the pins underneath the processor need to be shrunk to 0.5 millimeters from the current 1.0 millimeters in the company&#39;s current Pico ITX board, Sezen said.It&#39;s not easy to do this and ensure more than 90 percent of the boards coming off production lines are error free, Sezen said.Chip packaging technology needs to improve, he added. Via is a fabless chip developer and, on its own, faces difficulties developing new, cost-effective packaging technologies.In a sense, Via is dependent on Intel ramping up volume of new generation, 45-nanometer process chips. As Intel does so, new surface-mount technology for chips will be developed that can also be used to manufacture the Via Mobile ITX boards.Although the Mobile ITX is not likely to appear in UMPCs and other light portable devices until next year, the reduced package chip set incorporated into the board will likely be used in com modules for embedded systems by the end of this year, Sezen said. A manufacturer for these embedded systems is likely to make a public announcement this month, he said.Some would-be makers of new lightweight mobile devices, however, are chomping at the bit to get their hands on the new Via board. The MTube project, a research and development project sponsored by the Taiwan government&#39;s Science and Technology Group (STAG), was showing off a Linux-based, prototype Mobile Internet Device (MID) that incorporates the Mobile ITX board and measures 3.3 by 3.3 by 0.8 inches. It sported a 2.8-inch VGA touch screen and supports full rate video playback.The project wants to spin off from STAG and deliver a commercially available product as soon as it can get its hands on a motherboad with the specs that would make it viable, according to H.T. Kung, the project&#39;s advisor. However, to date, neither Via nor Intel could promise to deliver a commercially usable board within that timeframe, he said.&#160;
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The Athlon 64 has its first game specifically tuned for the chip. Courtesy of games legend Atari, the first person shooter, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, contains 64-bit enhancements which apparently gives &#39;a richer and more immersive gaming experience&#39;.
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With a maximum data throughput improvement of up to 33 percent between the CPU and system memory (compared with an 800 MHz system bus), the Extreme Edition&#39;s 1066 MHz bus can enable faster frame rates for both gaming and video editing.
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Microsoft&#39;s decision to push back a 64-bit Windows will not hurt chip sales, company says. Advanced Micro Devices is disappointed by Microsoft&#39;s decision to delay the introduction of 64-bit versions of its
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IBM's new chip works in 64-processor servers and contains features to let users cap system power consumption.
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Licensing move will let others build specialized coprocessors that will plug into sockets tailored to Opteron or Athlon.
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In his recent review of the Athlon 64 FX-55 processor, Jason Cross noted &quot;other things being equal, these chips have demonstrated nearly 100% clock scaling efficiency in many cases.
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(InfoWorld) - Via Technologies plans to develop PC motherboards that are even smaller than theÂ business card-sized Mobile ITX productÂ it announced on Tuesday. "In another year or two we will come out with even smaller form factors," Wenchi Chen, Via's CEO, promised at the Via Technology Forum, which is being held alongside the Computex exhibition in Taipei. Chen used his keynote to unveil the Mobile ITX board developed by Via. Measuring 7.5 centimeters by 4.5 cm, the tiny motherboard pushes the limits of what's possible using currently available components. Over time, the integration of components, such as combining the CPU and chip set inside a single package to conserve space, will allow Via to shrink motherboard sizes further. "The single CPU chip will happen," Chen said. Via is a distant third in the microprocessor market, trailing far behind Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. But the company has found a small and growing niche in the market for low-power processor designed for small computers. Four or five years ago, that primarily meant small desktop computers based on Via's Mini-ITX motherboards, which measure 17 cm by 17 cm. But now hardware makers are putting Via's chips into small mobile devices. Samsung ElectronicsÂ last year became the first top-tier vendor to embrace Via's mobile chips, putting them inside its Q1 ultramobile PC. Since then, Hewlett-Packard has used Via's chips in a low-power desktop PC for China, and a string of vendors have announced portable computers based on them. One of those companies is OQO, which uses a Via processor in its OQO model 02 ultramobile computer, which it bills as the smallest Windows Vista computer on the market. Other ultramobile devices that use Via's processors include theÂ NanoBook reference designÂ announced Tuesday, and Giga-byte Technology's U60, which was sold in Taiwan through a partnership with Chunghwa Telecom, which bundled the device with its 3.5G mobile service. "It sold out in the first 20 minutes, faster than anything they'd experienced," Chen said. And more is to come. Over the next six months, Via will announce deals with more vendors for ultraportable devices based on its chips, Chen said. Â
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Chipmaker's speedy Pentium 4 gets even faster.
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New "Tulsa" chip for high-end x86 servers takes on Advanced Micro Devices with onboard cache memory.
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Latest Athlon 64 processors feature advanced manufacturing technology.