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VIA releases a brand new core

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Competition

Competition is the key in this game. I doubt we'll see this in any $200 desktops anytime soon, but it would be nice...
posted by : Mike, 24 January 2008

Whee!

Score one for the underdog! Taken on the face of this article, this is quite exciting news...although whether or not Via can execute a significant market-taking program is highly questionable.

However...the one thing I have been thinking is that Nvidia should buy Via. Before this article, I kept thinking "nah, Via has CPU stuff, but it's all low-end embedded stuff. Won't help them." But now...
posted by : Motoman, 24 January 2008

Hi

Nice coverage and article, nice VIA chip too :)
Thinking about the increase of size,
for which you say : "This may sound like a massive bit of bloat,..." i did some picturing. Since the packaging is square a doubling means cut it in 4
stripes and attach each of
them at each of its (the squeare's) sides. What you got? A squeare expanded a bit on each side, Not that bloated i think :-)

Cheers
posted by : vagy, 24 January 2008

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