Centaur Technology
Type	Private
Founded	1995 Austin, Texas
Founder	Glenn Henry
Fate	Acquired by VIA Technologies
Headquarters	Austin, Texas
Website	http://www.centtech.com/

• Centaur Technology is a fabless designer of x86 compatible microprocessors.

Centaur was funded by IDT (Integrated Device Technology) and in September 1999,

Centaur was sold to VIA Technologies.

Processor Families

• WinChip

Microarchitectures

CPU

Centaur Technology (IDT)

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

VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies

Microarchitectures

CPU

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

IDT

IDT (Integrated Device Technology)

Processors

• WinChip 2 • 32-bit Pentium II class processor
• WinChip 3 •
• Winchip C6 • 32-bit Pentium class processor

RISC Processors

• CPU World • IDT

Processor	Year	Bus width	Description
R3001	19??	32	32-bit RISC processor for high-performance embedded systems
R3041	1993?	8/16/32	32-bit RISC processor for low cost embedded systems
R3051	19??	32	32-bit RISC processor for embedded applications
R3052	19??	32	32-bit RISC microprocessor for embedded systems
R3071	199?	32	32-bit RISC processor for embedded systems
R3081	199?	32	32-bit RISC processor with integrated FPU for embedded systems
RC32332	2000	32	Integrated 32-bit RISC microprocessor for embedded systems
RC32364	1998	32	High-performance 32-bit microprocessor for embedded systems
R36100	199?	32	Highly-integrated 32-bit RISC processor for embedded applications
R4640	199?	64	Embedded 64-bit RISC processor with 32-bit bus
R4650	199?	64	Embedded 64-bit RISC processor
RC64474	1998	64	Embedded 64-bit RISC processor with 32-bit bus
RC64475	1998	64	Embedded 64-bit RISC microprocessor
RC64574	1999	64	High-performance embedded 64-bit RISC processor with 32-bit bus
RC64575	1999	64	High-performance embedded 64-bit RISC microprocessor