VIA Technologies
Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1987 Fremont, California
Founder	Cher Wang
Headquarters	New Taipei City, Taiwan
Website	http://www.viatech.com/

VIA Technologies, Inc. is Taiwanese-American fabless semiconductor company that develops microprocessors, memory, and chipsets for AI, IoT, and computer vision applications.

MPU Families

• C3
• C7
• Nano
• Eden
• QuadCore E-Series
• Nano X2 E-Series

Microarchitectures

CPU:

Cyrix

• Cayenne (1997)
• Joshua (Gobi) (2000)

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Centaur Technology (IDT)

• Samuel (2000)
• Samuel 2 (VIA) (2001)
• Centaur CHA (CNS) (2019)

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VIA Technologies

• Samuel 2 (2001)
• Ezra (2001)
• Ezra-T (2001)
• Nehemiah (2003)
• Nehemiah+ (2003)
• Esther (2005)
• Isaiah (2008)
• Isaiah II (2014)
• Centaur CHA (CNS) (2019)

VIA Microarchitectures

CPU

VIA Microarchitectures
General						Details
µarch	Type	ISA	Manuf	Introduction	Designer	Process	Cores	Pipeline Num•Min•Max
CHA	CPU	x86-64	TSMC		Centaur Technology	16 nm 0.016 μm 1.6e-5 mm	8		20	22
Esther	CPU	x86-32	TSMC		VIA Technologies	90 nm 0.09 μm 9.0e-5 mm	1	16
Ezra	CPU	x86-32	TSMC		VIA Technologies	130 nm 0.13 μm 1.3e-4 mm	1	12
Isaiah	CPU	x86-64	Fujitsu, TSMC		VIA Technologies	65 nm 0.065 μm 6.5e-5 mm , 40 nm 0.04 μm 4.0e-5 mm	2, 4
Isaiah II	CPU	x86-64	TSMC		VIA Technologies	28 nm 0.028 μm 2.8e-5 mm	2, 4
Joshua	CPU	x86-32	Texas Instruments		Cyrix	180 nm 0.18 μm 1.8e-4 mm	1	7
Nehemiah	CPU	x86-32	TSMC		VIA Technologies	130 nm 0.13 μm 1.3e-4 mm	1	16
Samuel	CPU	x86-32	TSMC		Centaur Technology	180 nm 0.18 μm 1.8e-4 mm	1	12
Samuel 2	CPU	x86-32	TSMC		VIA Technologies	150 nm 0.15 μm 1.5e-4 mm	1	12

See also

• Cyrix
• Centaur Technology (IDT)