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The Vortex86 series is the little-known x86 survivor...the only real non-Intel or AMD x86 chip with roots back in the Socket 7 days. Centaur, with their Winchi
by timw4mail 5y ago
The Vortex86 series is the little-known x86 survivor...the only real non-Intel or AMD x86 chip with roots back in the Socket 7 days.
Centaur, with their Winchip design, and Cyrix both got bought by VIA. VIA did have a good run, but their custom CPU designs kind of fizzled out before they re-sold Centaur to Intel.
As far as I am aware, Vortex86 CPUs are still in production, unlike VIA's.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y ago> As far as I am aware, Vortex86 CPUs are still in production, unlike VIA's. Did VIA CPUs actually stop production at some point? As far as I know, they were restricted to shipping on a shrinking lineup of VIA's own boards, and then licensed to Zhaoxin to support requirements of certain organizations in China to deploy PCs using domestic chips.
- timw4mail 5y agoIf there is ongoing production, the supply is miniscule. At the very least, VIA no longer has a CPU design team. Zhaoxin chips do have the "CentaurHauls" vendor string, but I think they are different enough to not be "VIA" chips.