Friday, April 11th 2008

NVIDIA Promises Powerful sub-$45 Processing Platform

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It all starts with NVIDIA CEO's Jen Hsun-Huang statement "We're going to open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel, which quickly became a synonym for the announcement of NVIDIA and VIA jointly developed low-cost processing platform. During NVIDIA's financial analyst meeting today, the company revealed plans for what it calls "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC". The platform will use a VIA Isaiah C7-M processor coupled with an integrated NVIDIA IGP chipset. NVIDIA reckons that this combo will be good for a total of 36 GFLOPS in comparison to a mere 6.4 GFLOPS for a comparable Celeron-based system with an Intel 945 IGP/ICH4 chipset. NVIDIA also claims that its platform will be Windows Vista Premium capable, support Blu-ray HD and DirectX10, and cost less than $45.
Source: DailyTech

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68 Comments on NVIDIA Promises Powerful sub-$45 Processing Platform

#51
GSG-9
Solaris17ya the amount of cores is only usefull for what they are micricoded to do...i personally think 8 cores are pushing it now...after 8 core i wouldnt upgrade for like years because nothing software wise can use it......the only way a 5k core cpu is usefull is if its coded to process grafx physics and regular commands as well as jump out of the case get me a mountain dew and cover my GF in chocolate.
It has to go to the store to get the dew to. :toast:
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#52
Solaris17
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beyond_amusiaVia made this CPU from scratch, and the MMX and SSE crap is actually bulit into the architecture, not just add-on instrutions like AMD and Intel have. It's also x86/x64, so it'll be future proofed. It was also desinged with multi-core in mind, so I assume it will debute as a single core or dual core and expand from there... I'm dying to see how this will perform again my machine... If it out does it, I found my new PC, lol.
ya i really want to get a C7-M when i read on them when they first came ot i was like w0ot!!! because the case badge looks awsome umong other things
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#53
GSG-9
Solaris17w0ot!!! because the case badge looks awsome umong other things
:roll:
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#54
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
lol well it does
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#57
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
GSG-9is it this one? it is kinda cool
ya it looks like that but it was yellow and green


hope you guys know that i was just joking i love the case badge but that isnt the only reason ill get the proc :P
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#58
GSG-9
Solaris17ya it looks like that but it was yellow and green


hope you guys know that i was just joking i love the case badge but that isnt the only reason ill get the proc :P
haha yeah but you got me curious :)
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#59
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
seems ythey have a few



but i want the yellow one :(
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#60
substance90
DrPepperI was beginning to think nvidia was looking for a partner who made cpu's, thought it might have been IBM or maybe slightly intel never thought of via :eek:
Actually VIA is the only CPU-making company that seems logical for nVidia to team up with or to buy entirely. Both IBM and Intel are too big for nVidia.
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#61
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
ha THIS ONE!!!

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#62
beyond_amusia
Solaris17ha THIS ONE!!!

But that's not the C7-M =P
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#63
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
well i looke don the via site and their not really different....just ones mobile but i want one with the cool case badge tell me it is not cool
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#64
beyond_amusia
Solaris17well i looke don the via site and their not really different....just ones mobile but i want one with the cool case badge tell me it is not cool
It's not cool... :laugh: It don't say Intel all over it, :roll: naw, it's it cool. :)
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#65
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
Solaris17the C7-M is octa? i thought at the most dual when i heard about it awhile aog...man i wish sun made procs that could do more than run nix and solaris.....their sunblade rigs rock 16 and 8core procs FTW!! and they have had them for years sun had multi core rigs much b4 amd was even x64 :( id love a gaming rig made with those
A new a funny thing with NVidia is that they're beginning to call a Unified Shader unit a core :laugh: remember those 9800 GTX ads with the "128 cores" thing? :roll:

Yeah right! as if those 'cores' will help in any way with general processing, they're just the GPU's shader units.



^See? that's 1 + 8 = 1 VIA CPU + 8 GPU shader units.

But I'd say, this is an eye-wash, NVidia is wearing an angel's gown and getting inches closer to acquiring VIA.....all for that x86 license.
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#66
Mussels
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the latest Nv beta drivers include an inf file for azalia audio over HDMI... it seems Nv are adding audio to something soon, and i'd not be surprised if this was one of those things.
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#67
Darkrealms
btarunrA new a funny thing with NVidia is that they're beginning to call a Unified Shader unit a core :laugh: remember those 9800 GTX ads with the "128 cores" thing? :roll:

Yeah right! as if those 'cores' will help in any way with general processing, they're just the GPU's shader units.



^See? that's 1 + 8 = 1 VIA CPU + 8 GPU shader units.

But I'd say, this is an eye-wash, NVidia is wearing an angel's gown and getting inches closer to acquiring VIA.....all for that x86 license.
Unfortunately Nvidia can't get the 86x license for themselves. The VIA license is not transferable. This was discussed a few months back. Nvidia will probably just have to buy the majority of the shares and keep both companies separate.

On the board though. This could revive custom built low end PCs for people! I'm looking at this (CPU, GPU, MOBO =$45), Corsair VS (1gb=$20, 2bg=$40), HDD 80gb=$40, case/psu=$50, DVD burner=$30. Total for a good basic system $200-$250, maybe less : )
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#68
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
DarkrealmsUnfortunately Nvidia can't get the 86x license for themselves. The VIA license is not transferable. This was discussed a few months back. Nvidia will probably just have to buy the majority of the shares and keep both companies separate.
Agree it's non-transferable, but if VIA remains as an entity under NVidia (the way Centaur and Cyrix remain as entities under VIA), effectively NVidia can hold the license. That's a loophole in the system. The last I worked on a VIA CPU based machine was somewhere in 2007 (which isn't all that long ago), when the C7 processor's CPU Vendor string showed "CentaurHauls" and not "VIA Technologies". What does it imply? That VIA processors continue to hold the manufacturer strings of the companies that are under VIA (Centaur and Cyrix) and hence continue to hold the license.
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