WinChip
Sign in to saveWinChip is a discontinued series of low-power Socket 7-based x86 processors that was designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company IDT.
Key facts
- CPU.name
- WinChip
- CPU.image
- KL_IDT_WinChip_Marketing_Sample.jpg
- CPU.image_size
- 200px
- CPU.caption
- IDT WinChip Marketing sample
- CPU.slowest
- 180
- CPU.slow unit
- Mhz
- CPU.fastest
- 266
- CPU.fast unit
- Mhz
- CPU.fsb slowest
- 60
- CPU.fsb slow unit
- MT/s
- CPU.fsb fastest
- 100
- CPU.fsb fast unit
- MT/s
- CPU.size from
- 0.35 μm
- CPU.size to
- 0.25 μm
- CPU.soldby
- IDT
- CPU.designfirm
- Centaur Technology
- CPU.core1
- C6
- CPU.core2
- W2, C6+
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- KL IDT WinChip Marketing Sample.jpg
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- WinChip
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~8 min read
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Design
- Use
- Later developments
- Performance
- Decline
- Data
- Winchip C6 (0.35 μm)
- WinChip 2 (0.35 μm)
- WinChip 2A (0.35 μm)
- WinChip 2B (0.25 μm)
- WinChip 3 (0.25 μm)
- See also
- References
- External links
WinChip is a discontinued series of low-power Socket 7-based x86 processors that was designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company IDT.
==Overview== ===Design=== The design of the WinChip was quite different from other processors of the time. Instead of a large gate count and die area, IDT, using its experience from the RISC processor market, created a small and electrically efficient processor similar to the 80486, because of its single pipeline and in-order execution microarchitecture. It was of much simpler design than its Socket 7 competitors, such as AMD K5/K6, which were superscalar and based on dynamic translation to buffered micro-operations with advanced instruction reordering (out of order execution).