Images: Isaiah architecture up close

Via Technologies is making processors based on a new architecture that could help the company gain some ground in the industry.

The chips utilize the so-called Isaiah architecture. They are expected to provide double the performance of the company's current chips but consume the same amount of power. They will come with two cores and run at 2 gigahertz.

Shown here, a wafer of Isaiah chips. The company will try to get the processors into notebooks, thin clients, and cheap desktops.