Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th May 2008 22:11 UTC, submitted by SReilly
The idea of open-source hardware is slowly slowly but surely gaining traction. VIA Technologies, Inc., joined in on the fun today by unveiling an open source reference platform for low power notebooks, based on its own processor technology (obviously). The CAD files have been released under a Creative Commons license. The machine is tentatively named OpenBook.
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2007-09-06
How has the design of their processors been coming along? I don't have anything against them really, I like their mini-itx boards, however back in the day when I "upgraded" from a 486dx4 100mhz to a Cyrix PR200 (150mhz), I gained some processor cycles with a huge sacrifice to floating point operations. We benchmarked that thing and it basically said the floating point compared to a 80287 coprocessor... around 1998-99.
, I believe that the VIA chips are originally based off the flawed Cyrix processors, does the new VIA versions fare any better?
IIRC, which I may not
Or maybe I just ramble nonsense?