Three can play the ULV game.
VIA, best know for its chipsets, has begun mass production of its ultra low voltage C7-M processor. Now, when we think ultra low voltage, the thing that pops into most of our minds is either the Pentium M or Turion 64. The C7-M however, needs but only 3.5W of power on its ULV model which runs at 1ghz, and only a minuscle 0.1W when idle. The spunky little 90nm chip will be marketed with a naming scheme not unlike Intel’s Pentium M line.
VIA is offering five C7-M ULV models: the 770, 771, 772, 775 and 779, clocked at 1.0, 1.2, 1.2, 1.5 and 1.0GHz, respectively, and thermal design envelope of 5, 7, 5, 7.5 and 3.5W, respectively. Like other C7-M CPUs, the ULV versions incorporate VIA’s PadLock encryption and security engine and its PowerSaver energy-conservation system. They all contain 128KB of L2 cache and support Intel’s MMX, SSE, SSE 2 and SSE 3 instruction sets.
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