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Nvidia to make chipsets for Via CPUs
Enough with the buyout rumours already!
Tue Mar 25 2008, 14:43
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. ยต
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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?
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And the all important question:
DAAMIT vs. 
NAIIV DIVA?
VIVIAN DIA?
DA-NV-II.AVI?

I like the diva one.
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.
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.
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. :p
How is this going to play out? Will VIA's CPU be socketed in the future?
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.
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.
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.
VIA bought by NVIDIA was my nightmare. So good news, GOOD news!
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.

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?
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.