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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Duncan Baird who wrote ()1/30/2000 9:36:00 PM
From: milo_morai  Read Replies (1) of 1578539
 
First Via Joshua silicon chip flee from fabs

Posted 30/01/2000 11:53am by Mike Magee

Sources not a million miles away from the capital of Taiwan have told The Register that production quality .18 micron silicon for Via's Joshua microprocessor arrived at the end of last week.

The Joshua processor is likely to be officially rolled out with a product line in early March, according to the same sources.

The silicon is manufactured in National Semiconductor's South Portland fabrication plant, and the first units to ship will be PR-533 parts, the same sources said.

NatSemi used to own Cyrix technology, which Via acquired last year. Some technical information about Joshua can be found at Via's Web site, here. viatech.com ©


theregister.co.uk

You gotta love this..This will surly take a good bite out of INTC's bottom Line.

Milo

viatech.com

"Processor Features

Socket 370 pinout on P6 bus interface
Integrated 64 Kb L1 cache
Integrated mutually exclusive 256 Kb L2 cache
133 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) support
3DNow! ? Technology
Enhanced dual pipelined MMX ? and FPU
Utilized advanced 0.18æ fabrication process
Joshua PIII Celeron
Industry Standard Infrastructure Y Y Y
Advanced 3D! Now Instructions Y N N
Broad Chipset Support Y Y Y
133 MHz FSB Support Y Y N
320 Kb Mutual Exclusive Cache Y Y N
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