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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (135188)3/30/2001 1:11:12 PM
From: tejek   of 1581699
 
I don't think the C3 will be anything like the Athlon in terms of performance of how it changes the companies situation. If they can make twice as many from a wafer it might be a good low end chip, but with Durons and lower speed Athlons and Celerons selling so cheap its hard to see how Via can make a fortune from this chip. The "Ezra" will supposedly operate at 1.2ghz next year but by then 1.2ghz will be a low end chip, and that assumes no slippage in Via's schedule. There might be good non-PC, or low end laptop uses for the chip if it runs so cool that it doesn't need a fan. It could be a money maker for Via.

Tim, when I referred to them being "the AMD of 2001", I guess I meant that they are being innovative and aggressive simultaneously. There is no way I can evaluate the quality of the chip since this is the first I have heard about it.

However, it does sound like a break through as far as its running cool and in terms of a wafer making twice as many chips.

ted
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