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VIA today announced its upcoming 'Isaiah' core, its pitch at the emerging 64-bit x86 CPU market founded by AMD.
While AMD is targeting more mainstream computing applications, VIA's 64-bit part will be pitched at digital media processing roles.
Typically, VIA was vague about what will make Isaiah particularly suitable for such applications, beyond the usual faster front-side bus, more cache, faster floating-point maths, out-of-order processing and a superscalar design, all of which could be applied to plenty of existing processors, x86-compatible or otherwise.
However, Isaiah will see improvements made to VIA's PadLock hardware-based security engine, and with apps like "decrypting a digital media stream while simultaneously displaying its contents in an ultra-high resolution format on an HDTV" in mind, PadLock is likely to play a key role in the new chip.
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