Who buys VIA's x86 processors and why?
Who buys VIA's x86 processors and why?
Special people
I don't know, but I guess for embedded systems where ARM doesn't offer the required features? I don't know why anyone would still bothe with x86 though, ARM is usually good enough for embedded nowadays adn x86 isn't the most power efficient to say the least.
the poorest of poorfags. last time i had one was on a mini-itx board over a decade ago and because it was passively cooled.
Chinks because they're chinks.
It's a shame they don't try to get involved with the high end. It'd be nice if Intel had some meaningful competition.
Nobody ever expects the VIA inquisition.
Nobody
That's why they have such low marketshare
I'm pretty sure the embedded x86 market is literally dead
No reason to buy it at all
Intel Goldmont Plus will outperform it and have better feature set like native HDMI 2.0 support, HEVC Main10 & VP9 10bit hardware decoding all in 1 true SoC design while VIA still can't integrate their chipset with their CPU
No ME, and for most users they're more than enough. More companies should start using them for thin clients and such.
If you want to design a device using a modern Intel or AMD processor, you need to get chipsets for the processor and ME/AGESA firmware to include into the BIOS. Getting access to those requires that Intel and AMD care enough about you to let you sign an NDA and purchase chipsets from them, and pay whatever per-unit licensing fees they're charging.
I bought an used VIA mini-itx board back in 2010 for an Xbox-PC project. When buying new, VIA boards seem to be quite expensive.
My laptop motherboard has several via via chips (I think sound is one and maybe some usb controller or smth)
Sound is actually pretty good on windows (because there is sound blaster software/equiliser) but on linux its absolute dog shit, sounds like its coming from car exhaust/silencer
I use external dac/amp so its a non issue
I bought one like ten years ago because I needed a physical lab pc and it was the cheapest barebones pc available on newegg. via samuel cpu was fucking horrible.
Don't they make some "rugged" sff desktop now that works in somewhat extreme temps or something?
I have an OLPC XO-1.5 and it has a VIA, it works fine for the age of the thing.
They still b8 with linux support on their site.
Linux works fine on VIA though.
Embedded shit that doesn't need lots of power
Replacing an industrial computer that controls some machines: 1000 bucks
Replacing the machine or rewriting the existing programs to work on a different OS/arch would cost magnitudes more
This is why we have emulation.
Atom uses less power than VIA crap.
are these botnet free?
>rewriting the existing programs to work on a different OS/arch would cost magnitudes more
Not if you were smart when you developed the code in the first place. I've recently been playing with ancient Research Unix from the early 80s and almost everything compiles without changes on my modern machine.
>tfw running Matlab compiled from source