VIA given license to manufacture Pentium-M compatible CPUs

[YKhan]

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Grants Pentium M Bus License to VIA
Technologies.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20050517115533.html

The VIA C7-M's will likely be produced on 90nm SOI process at IBM
Fishkill. And they are likely to be even more power saving than
Pentium-M (3.5W @ 1.0Ghz!).

Yousuf Khan

 

[Tony Hill]

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Grants Pentium M Bus License to VIA
Technologies.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20050517115533.html

The VIA C7-M's will likely be produced on 90nm SOI process at IBM
Fishkill. And they are likely to be even more power saving than
Pentium-M (3.5W @ 1.0Ghz!).

Hmm.. interesting.. I wonder if there is any stipulation in the
licensing agreement that they have to be the Pentium-M Socket 479
pinout and not the pinout for a Pentium4 chip. After all, the
Pentium-M and the Pentium4 use the same (electrically speaking) bus.

I wonder if the performance of VIA's chips has been bumped up any for
this new version? The current chips are quite nice from a power
consumption perspective, but they are BADLY outperformed by Intel's
Celeron-M. The new bus should give them a bit of a boost all on it's
own, particularly when coupled with some faster memory technologies.
However they'll need more than just that to make the processor fast.

 

[Rob Stow]

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Grants Pentium M Bus License to VIA
Technologies.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20050517115533.html

The VIA C7-M's will likely be produced on 90nm SOI process at IBM
Fishkill. And they are likely to be even more power saving than
Pentium-M (3.5W @ 1.0Ghz!).

And the very next day X-bit labs says:
"VIA Denies Intel Pentium M Bus Licensing [UPDATED].
VIA Clarifies Socket 479 Processor Details"
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20050518045045.html

 

[Yousuf Khan]

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Grants Pentium M Bus License to VIA
Technologies.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20050517115533.html

The VIA C7-M's will likely be produced on 90nm SOI process at IBM
Fishkill. And they are likely to be even more power saving than
Pentium-M (3.5W @ 1.0Ghz!).

And the very next day X-bit labs says:
"VIA Denies Intel Pentium M Bus Licensing [UPDATED].
VIA Clarifies Socket 479 Processor Details"
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20050518045045.html

Yeah, noticed, oh well, somebody must know the real story behind it.

Yousuf Khan