Nvidia to make chipsets for Via CPUs
Enough with the buyout rumours already!
IN A SURE SIGN of the coming apocalypse, Nvidia is going to make chipsets for Via CPUs. If you remember, Via closed down its chipset division, and NV needs to find a CPU partner it hasn't terminally pissed off.
Not much more to say to it than that. NV can't buy Via (allcaps) for a number of reasons, so this is the only door open for the chipset guys. A close working relationship or partnership makes sense for a lot of reasons, and could greatly benefit both sides. All the rumours of buyout talks for the last week were just rumours, this is what was happening behind closed doors. µ
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NICE
VIA bought by NVIDIA was my nightmare. So good news, GOOD news!Wow.
Hot, incompetent chipsets for a cool, efficient CPU?VIA had made some mistakes before. However, this one looks like aiming a sawed-off at its neck. Trigger-boom.
Maybe very good
VIA makes some nice low power dissipation processors but they get short shrift in the marketplace. Silence in a PC is becoming a selling point and VIA CPUs must be the coolest x86 chips around, thus quietest also.Perhaps Nvidia support will get VIA's CPUs more attention.
Good for nVidia
This is good news. Access to VIAs x86 technology, although inferior to Intel or AMDs, should help keep nVidia from being trampled by Intel, at least for a little while.Great!
hey Charlie = the new INQ ATI salesman, how are you doing today? oops, i mean how do you hate nvidia today? oops, i mean how do you love ati today?A name to remember
Whenever anyone thinks of VIA they should also think of Centaur, in Austin, Texas and of the people there who are led by Glenn Henry and who design some of the best/most efficient CPUs in the world.Is this the finalized deal?
How is this going to play out? Will VIA's CPU be socketed in the future?don't you see the big picture?
VIA may have sold off their chipset division, but that doesn't mean they can't or won't be able to provide AMD or Intel options thru VIA. it's not just about 'their' processors they're going to provide for.VIA also doesn't anything like the resources nVidia has...VIA may, with this partnership, boost their CPU unexpectedly, or with nVidia, make a whole new processor to offer.
it will be interesting to see what develops.
Hope this means...
That nVidia might manufacture a board capable of housing VIA CN Isaiah processors in some kind of PGA or LGA package... That'd be nice. :pVIA = Cyrix
Always remember VIA = Cyrix. Horrible FPU and ALU. Horrible compatibility.I'll never forget trying to play some games on my P166+ 133MHz Cyrix 6x86 and they said they wouldn't run on a 80486.
Then running Quake2 with a Canopus 6MB 3DFX card and it was faster to play in software at 320x200 than it was in 3DFX mode and 640x480. Swapped the CPU for a P5/200 and all my problems went away.
NV plans for Nvidia X86 flavor
It's probably Nvidia's attempt to create their version of the X86 borrowing X86 license. It'd be great to see what version of X86 they can bring to the table. NV multicore X86 with improved hybrid risc and gpu blend? hopefully it's energy efficient like the APX arm version. lol.Start your dictionaries
And the all important question:DAAMIT vs.
NAIIV DIVA?
VIVIAN DIA?
DA-NV-II.AVI?
I like the diva one.
Hey Glenn VIA != Cyrix, VIA = Centaur
Google Centaur Fool!NV X86
If they could get VIA's X86 license they be better buying buying ARM and redesigning the X86 with GPU and RISC flavors. With a hybrid X86, Risc and GPU would NV be able to pull off an energy efficient scalable teraflop common general visual processor?