VIA Announces Quad Core Processor Called QuadCore

By Nathan Kirsch

VIA Technologies today announced the launch of the VIA QuadCore processor, the lowest power quad core processor on the market today. The VIA QuadCore processor came to life when the company combined four ‘Isaiah’ cores on two dies that are then placed onto a single chip. Initially available at a speed of 1.2+ GHz on the L4700, VIA QuadCore processors are natively 64-bit compatible and come with a host of additional performance features including Adaptive Overclocking, 4MB L2 cache, and the 1333MHz V4 Bus. You might be wondering what 1.2+ GHz means and it appears that the QuadCore processor is dynamic just like Intel’s processors with Turbo Boost. We were told that the VIA QuacCore L4700 will run at 1.47GHz if the thermal and power headroom is available on this procesrros that has a TDP of just 27.5 Watts. We are keeping our fingers crossed that VIA Technologies and Centaur Technology will send us over a test platform so we can run some tests on it like we did when they announced their Nano processor back in 2008.

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VIA QuadCore Product Highlights

  • Power-efficient architecture
  • High-performance superscalar processing
  • Out-of-order x86 architecture
  • Efficient floating point unit (2 clock SP multiplies)
  • Advanced multi-core processing
  • 4MB L2 cache
  • 1333MHz V4 Bus
  • Native support for 64-bit operating systems
  • Hardware virtualization support
  • Advanced power and thermal management
  • VIA AES hardware security features
  • Secure Hash Algorithm: SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
  • Pin-to-pin compatibility with VIA processor range

VIA QuadCore ProcessorFeaturing a highly optimized, energy-efficient multi-core architecture, the VIA QuadCore processor delivers awesome multi-threaded performance across the board for multi-tasking, multimedia playback, productivity and internet browsing in a low power envelope. The distributed performance of the VIA QuadCore also makes it ideal for making the most of multi-display environments. As a result of the rapid proliferation of high definition multimedia content and increasingly demanding multithreaded applications, a four core processor is the new baseline for todays mainstream PC user, said Epan Wu, Head of Processor Platforms, VIA Technologies, Inc. The VIA QuadCore processor meets that need with the industrys most power efficient architecture.

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