We haven't seen a notebook chip from anyone other than Intel and AMD for quite some time (don't remind me of the Transmeta debaucle...). Even AMD's notebook chips have not duplicated their cutting edge desktop successes. It was a pleasant surprise to see that Via is making low power notebook chips to compete with Intel's Pentium M chip (better known as Centrino when part of the wireless networking package).
CHIP FIRM Via said it has started manufacturing the C7 microprocessor family which uses the Esther core, is built on a 90 nanometre silicon on insulator (SOI) process and which has low power characteristics.
Read the press release here.
Also, CNET has some analysis of it here.
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