VIA in the news again: Antaur

[bsdgeek]

They launched a low power spinoff of the Nehemiah C3 today for mobile usage.

[Che Guevara]

Oh no, not VIA again!

VIA - We connect... directly to the hell .

[Marshmallowman]

Via does not have the best track record, but for what they are there low power CPU's are pretty good.

Thier small form facor boads/CPU make nice little units for things like media players and router's. And they are quite reasobable as cheap little office machines....just don't try to do anything to stressful to them.

[High_Jumbllama]

I'd rather use a Cyrix.

[Technoid]

As VIA actualy bought what was left of the Cyrix CPU department

[dZeus]

C3 good? lol.

Even the Celeron-2 performs better when looking at chips with the same energy consumption.

[Dr Mordrid]

Excuse me while I barf at the very idea of a VIA processor.....

Dr. Mordrid

[Byock]

Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
I'd rather use a Cyrix.

You have to be kidding, The only use for Cyrix was as toilet paper.

[The PIT]

Oh I can remember the time when Cyrix was good cheap alternative to the Pentuin. Then Intel improved it and crushed poor old Cyrix. Leaving only AMD who managed to come up with a good processor when Intel was being taken over marketing.

[Ribbit]

And even AMD took their sweet time about it. But boy was it worth the wait.

[Dr Mordrid]

Dr. Mordrid

[Byock]

Originally posted by Ribbit
And even AMD took their sweet time about it. But boy was it worth the wait.

It was worth the wait. But do you remember such impressive Cyrics chips as the 300Mhz with ON CHIP SOUND? Now there is a good idea, put SOUND on a CPU.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Byock
It was worth the wait. But do you remember such impressive Cyrics chips as the 300Mhz with ON CHIP SOUND? Now there is a good idea, put SOUND on a CPU.

well, Cyrix aint the only ones that has had that Idea
INTEL has also had ideas along those lines

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Byock
You have to be kidding, The only use for Cyrix was as toilet paper.

Yeah, but remember to use the right side. Those pins leave some rather tender scars.

[Byock]

Originally posted by Technoid
well, Cyrix aint the only ones that has had that Idea
INTEL has also had ideas along those lines

I guess I am biased, because I worked phone support on machines that had those processors. They became so bad, we just started replacing everyone that called with a AMD chip. After the 400th call, from some irate customer, because of lock ups, you tend to hate the product.