Centaur Technologies Tour - Making The Via Nano CPU @ Legit Reviews

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Last week VIA Technologies announced the new VIA Nano processor family based on the VIA Isaiah Architecture. Legit Reviews was visiting Centaur Technology, the company behind the VIA Nano during the launch. The crew over at Centaur gave us a tour and showed us how they make low-cost x86 compatible microprocessors. We also talk about the VIA Nano and show off some benchmark numbers. The Intel Atom better watch out!

 

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"At this test station these two individuals were individually testing Nano processors at various speeds and temperatures to see if they pass stress testing. If you are curious what Centuar was testing you are in luck. Centaur was checking to see if the VIA Nano CPU's were stable at 1.8GHz at three different temperatures (85C, 5C and then 25C)with 1.1V on production platforms. The processors that pass testing at this stage move along to become VIA Nano L2100 processors, which are the 1.8GHz processors. I was able to see VIA Nano processors get speed binned right in front my eyes..."

 

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"While talking to various employees I came across a group that was trying to solve a booting issue with the VIA Nano processor and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Without getting too technical all processors have fuses that can be blown to enable and disable various areas of the processor. Centaur discovered that by blowing one specific fuse that they created a booting issue with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I listened in for a bit and in a matter of minutes they were able to find the cause of a problem and fix it while I was standing there..."

 

Article Title: Centaur Technologies Tour - Making The Via Nano CPU ( -at -) Legit Reviews

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/719/1/

 

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