VIA C7 Processor for Low-Cost Notebook
Filed in: Gadgets — May 31st, 2005
With its C7 processor, Via Technologies hopes to eliminate its performance credibility gap and allow notebook makers to come out with light notebooks for under $800.
The chip, which will be shown off next week in notebooks at the Computex trade show in Taipei, sports performance roughly in the same neighborhood as that for current notebook chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, according to Via executives.
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About VIA C7 Processor
The new VIA C7 processor is the smallest, lowest power, most efficient and most secure native x86 processor in the world. Built on the advanced VIA CoolStream architecture, the Esther core of the VIA C7 processor is designed to extend the digital lifestyle by combining robust performance of up to 2.0GHz with ultra low power consumption and highly efficient heat dissipation.
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Thought:
Though the speed of VIA processor cannot compete with Intel or AMD processors, however, it has its own advantages: longer battery life, less heat, smaller size, and cheaper.
I always want to get a notebook, I don’t mind that it does not play 3D games since all my activities are only surfing, blogging, chatting and listening to online radio. I will consider a budget VIA powered notebook. 
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