Rambus wants the Taiwanese DRAM manufacturers to adopt the XDR memory standard. Intel is slated to revamp its server platform in the second quarter of 2008. This is interesting, VIA will launch its new processor architecture in the Q1 2008.

Isaiah features a 64-bit architecture and will be manufactured on a 65nm process, as compared to 90nm for Esther. Other features include a V4 Bus speed of 1333MHz, up from 800MHz previously, and support for ECC (error checking and correction) memory and virtualization technology. The L2 Cache will also increase to 1MB from 128KB previously.