VIA Launching tiny QuadCore CPU @ 1.2GHz

[sudeshc]

Seems perfect for tablets and netbooks, hope to see how it performs when put in an tablet or netbook.

 

[palladin9479]

I can see the above posters never have dealt with a Via CPU. The GPU is integrated into the north bridge not the CPU. Look up VX800 and the other Chipsets that Via makes.

And for fck sake stop comparing TDP directly. This thing won't be running at 27W, no where near that. That is simply the maximum design window so as to ensure fanless operation.

 

[Guest]

But can it play Crysis ?

 

[c_herring]

[citation][nom]bruticus66[/nom]But can it play Crysis ?[/citation]Actually, Crysis on the single-core Via Nano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Obx7ZYTTU

Can't tell what the settings are, but it's probably low.

TDP can be indicative of power consumption, but not as a perfect point of comparison. It's just the amount of heat (watts thermal) that your cooling system needs to be able to handle to ensure safe operation. That's why it's Thermal Design Power.

 

[fir_ser]

Sure this quad core processor can be used in embedded products, or even in a small home server.

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]decembermouse[/nom]If the price is right for these chips and their mobos, and depending on how good their implementation of adaptive overclocking is, I might pick up one of these for a low-wattage Folding@Home rig, throw a big hard drive in it, and use it as a home media server... if the mobos have a PCIe slot (8x or greater) maybe a discrete GPU, and use this instead of Brazos. Well, depending on how it fares against Llano.My only concern is this: I thought we were past the days where we were slapping two dual-core CPU's together and calling it a quad. This design will not perform as well as if they'd built a native quad. Maybe they're recycling an older architecture that's just too old to make the complexity jump to being a native quad?[/citation]
I disagree. Core 2 quad is STILL better than AMD's quad CPUs. Mine is 3 years old now, and still punches through benchmarks higher than a phenom 2 x4.

 

[Soul_keeper]

I wouldn't be surprised if the military grade encryption in the quad core beats intel's latest offering.
This is a big strength for these things.

 

[palladin9479]

Technically "military grade encryption" can mean anything using AES-256 as that is a DISA authorized encryption protocol.

Now if we're talking real "military grade encryption" then nothing in the IT market will have it. High Encryption is treated as a weapons system in the USA and subject to Arms export and control laws. Basically you can't sell it, and people can't but it without specific approval from the US Government. The people who build and produce these units sell them directly to the US Government or to other nations when authorized. Typically as part of a enclosed encryption device. And here is the kicker, its all propriety closed hardware based encryption, the algorithms themselves are classified TS//CRYPTO and you won't ever get to look at them. The newest bunch must comply with HAIPE and are used to connect network segments across an untrusted network without allowing that network to detect, interfere or interface with the protected networks. These devices are pretty amazing and are the envy of every other nations national security branch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_encryption_systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAIPE

 

[iam2thecrowe]

problem is all 4 cores put together are probably not as powerful as a single intel or AMD core

 

[someoneelse]

Thumbs up if you had forgotton Via existed