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WinChip

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WinChip
A Pentium MMX-class CPU chip from Via Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA (www.viatech.com). Originally developed by Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX, Via acquired Centaur's designs in 1999. The Socket 7-based WinChip, which never caught on, was optimized for Windows applications, and the C6 models were introduced in 1997 at 180 MHz and 200 MHz. C6+ chips contained enhanced instructions for 3D graphics.


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The company claims it is seeing the benefit of its exit from the x86 market - which was completed with the recent sale of the Centaur Design subsidiary and the related WinChip intellectual property - as sales grew in each of the company's four major product areas; communications products, RISC microprocessors, high-speed logic and SRAM.
2 million associated with special transactions, primarily the sale of IDT's Centaur design subsidiary and WinChip intellectual property (see related releases).
According to rumors on the web VIA Technologies Inc will launch two low-cost WinChip processors soon, resulting from its buy-out of IDT Inc's Centaur x86 group.
 
 
 
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