Have you ever heard of Centaur Technology? You might not have, but as a wholly owned subsidiary of VIA, Centaur Technology, has spent years designing high performance, x86 compatible microprocessors. Centaur Technology has been in the news a lot this year with the announcement of the VIA Isaiah Architecture. The 65 nanometer Isaiah processor was designed with performance per watt in mind and is taken the market by storm since VIA started showing off performance numbers just a few months ago. The main competition for the VIA Isaiah processor would be the
Intel Atom processor, which Isaiah is very competitive with. Not bad for a company based in Austin, Texas that has a group of 100 engineers and microprocessor designers! While they don't nearly have the budget that Intel has, but they manage to get product on the market. Being the underdog isn’t a bad thing though as Centaur has achieved the fastest design cycle in the industry, with new designs going from concept to completion in about 9 months (1/3 the time of their competitors). With ultra mobile portable devices (UMPD) taking off faster than expected Centaur Technology seems to have launched the Isaiah processor at just the right time. VIA also claims that the Isaiah Architecture is the World’s most power-efficient x86 processor architecture. Late last week I had a chance to visit Centaur, so instead of doing the usual launch article I spent a day with Centaur, which just happened to be the day they
announced the Nano processor series.
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Source: Legit-Reviews
Jun 3, 2008, 11:12 AM
