VIA expects to start shipping its new C7 processor based on the Esther core until the end of this quarter. The chip needs 20 W to run at full clock speed (2 GHz), but falls to 0.1 W when idle. Pitched at thin ‘n light notebooks, mobile devices and personal electronics, the 90-nanometer C7 has an 800 MHz FSB, 128 KB of L1 cache and another 128 KB of L2. It also supports SSE2 and SSE3 instructions and a series of new security features as well as NX bit.
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