Op Ace's Hardware lees ik dat VIA nu echt een toontje lager gaat zingen met haar Cyrix III processor. Eerder hoorden wij al over de verschrikkelijk slechte resultaten die de Cyrix III op 667MHz behaalde. Nu blijkt ook dat de yields van de Cyrix III zo slecht zijn op die snelheid, dat VIA haar doelen maar heeft aangepast. De Cyrix III moet nu gaan draaien op een snelheid van 500 tot 600MHz, in plaats van 533 tot 667MHz.
I did a bit of searching, and noticed that VIA has revised the frequency range listed on its Cyrix III product page:
Running at speeds of 500MHz to 600MHz, the new VIA Cyrix® III is primed to optimize your computing experience with enhanced performance features such as a 100/133MHz Front Side Bus and 128Kb full-speed L1 cache. Multimedia performance is further enhanced by the processor's support for MMX™ and 3DNow!™ technology, allowing you to play the most exciting action games in a rich graphical environment.
This is contrary to the range indicated by the recent, and now recalled, press release: 533 to 667 MHz. The frequency revisions make sense considering they are probably closer to what the Cyrix III is currently yielding at, and also help to place the product in the low-end of the spectrum...below the Celeron and Duron processors, which is where VIA is looking to sell into in the first place.