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What is kwown about the "Winchip 3" ?

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xsecret



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:16 am    Post subject: What is kwown about the "Winchip 3" ? Reply with quote
Do you ever saw one of them ?

Are they reached the market ?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
No, i don't mean the Socket 370 Cyrix III, i mean WINCHIP 3, a Socket 7 chip from IDT-Centaur
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
as far as i remember, via bought cyrix and idt, and all the winchip3 designs ended up being the cyrix iii?

though i probably have that wrong Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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In 1999, VIA acquired Centaur, the makers of the Winchip CPU line. When the Centaur designers began they took the Winchip 3 processor and changed it around to work on the Socket 370 platform and reduced the die size to 0.18 micron, this new core was codenamed Samuel. The Samuel, like the Joshua didnīt include any L2 cache, again this hampered the performance of the Samuel CPU. After the Samuel core performed less than VIA had expected they took the Samuel core and added 64KB L2 cache, this greatly increased the performance of the CPU and shrank the die again to 0.15 micron, making it the worlds first 0.15 micron CPU.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't think they ever reached the market. I don't remember seeing their images, though samples may exist. If Winchip 3 datasheet exists then probably samples should exist too, right? -

http://www.centtech.com/designs.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20050305225129/http://www.centtech.com/designs.html

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Right !

And these babies will come soon in my collection, i hope :



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow! How do you find all this good stuff?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nice!

though it'd look substantially cooler with a huge 3 beside it Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
gshv wrote:
Wow! How do you find all this good stuff?

Gennadiy


There are still not mine, but i'm working on it Wink

Well, I have a french hardware website (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21049 for exemple) and i have many friends in this business that used to deal with old CPUs.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
xsecret wrote:
gshv wrote:
Wow! How do you find all this good stuff?

Gennadiy


There are still not mine, but i'm working on it Wink

Well, I have a french hardware website (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21049 for exemple) and i have many friends in this business that used to deal with old CPUs.


What's your story over? Winchip 3 exist?
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