- VIA CPU
Overview at
CPUShack WinChip architecture at Sandpile.org
WinChip2
architecture at Sandpile.org
CPUPages W2B
Winchip W2, W2A, W2B
UKcpu Winchip2B...
- used
Socket 7 are the AMD K5 and K6, the
Cyrix 6x86 and 6x86MX, the IDT
WinChip, the
Intel P5
Pentium (2.5–3.5 V, 75–200 MHz), the
Pentium MMX (166–233 MHz)...
- CPUID.
Processors noted to
exhibit this
behavior include Cyrix MII and IDT
WinChip 2. In 64-bit mode,
CPUID will set the top 32 bits of RAX, RBX, RCX and...
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During the 1990s, VIA,
Transmeta and
other chip manufacturers also
produced IA-32
compatible processors (e.g.
WinChip). In the
modern era,
Intel still produced...
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processor manufacturer ID strings: "AuthenticAMD" – AMD "CentaurHauls" – IDT
WinChip/Centaur (Including some VIA and
Zhaoxin CPUs) "CyrixInstead" – Cyrix/early...
- processors, some of the
final Cyrix M-II processors, some of the
final IDT
WinChip 2 processors, and Rise mP6 processors. It is
backward compatible with Socket...
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first socket to use a
staggered pin grid array, or SPGA,
which allowed the
chip's pins to be
spaced closer together than
earlier sockets.
Socket 5 was replaced...
- to use
native x86
execution and
ordinary microcode only, like Centaur's
Winchip,
unlike competitors Intel and AMD
which introduced the
method of dynamic...
- core was a
simpler design,
being an
evolution of the
WinChip processors (the
unreleased WinChip 4).
Samuel was
designed for
higher clock speeds, with...
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worked at 266 MHz, and the
WinChip 2's PR
rating was
based upon the
performance of its AMD opponent.
Announced in 1998, the
chip never achieved widespread...
