VIA has a writable vendor string which they have used to reveal this type of she...

rbanffy · on Jan 4, 2010

I always liked those guys. The über-486 Centaur built was briiliant design and out-of-the-box thinking from top to bottom.

Weren't the VIAs able to trounce Xeons in some crypto stuff?

wmf · on Jan 4, 2010

Weren't the VIAs able to trounce Xeons in some crypto stuff?

Yes, since they had crypto instructions and nobody else did. Now I would expect Westmere to be faster.