amdplanet.it

Hardware Extreme ha pubblicato la recensione del processore C3 di VIA operante a 933MHz. Questo prodotto si differenzia dagli altri per il ridottissimo calore prodotto, cosa che lo rende molto appetibile per laptop o sistemi desktop ad alta integrazione.

VIA didn't enter the CPU market with no experience, in fact the C3 processor is based on a combination of Centaur and Cyrix technology (Yes, you heard right Cyrix! Their technology still lives). The CPU tries to impose a different approach to x86 architecture, but I can not call this approach new. It is known that x86 processors performance depends mostly on several instructions. VIA C3 optimizes the execution time of the most frequent instructions and limits the hardware for the less likely used instructions. These less used instructions are implemented using the microcode, a solution adopted by many manufacturers that target to thin clients market. There are different opinions about the use of microcode to translate instructions on desktop processors, but the use of microcode is generally needed to ensure compatibility even in high performance CPUs.