VIA preps Pentium 4 ‘clone’

The Register: “If Intel won’t give us a Pentium 4 bus licence, we’ll make our own Pentium 4. That, in effect, is what
VIA told attendees at the Microprocessor Forum yesterday.

The chip – described in an interview with EBN as a “Pentium 4 clone” – is codenamed CZA and will
run at 2GHz, utilise an 18-stage pipeline to get it there, and employ a “Pentium 4 bus” and P4 design
concepts. It will be fabbed at 0.10 micron, but won’t ship before 2003-2004.”