Taiwanese chip and board vendor Via Technologies has introduced a new ultra-low voltage (ULV) processor aimed at industrial, commercial, and ultra-mobile applications. Touted as the “world’s most power-efficient” x86-compatible CPU.
Based on the VIA Cool-Stream architecture, the 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor is manufactured using an advanced 90nm process, which enables speeds of up to 500MHz with ultra low power consumption of 1W peak power and as low as 100mW (0.1W) idle power. Integrated into the processor is the VIA StepAhead Technology Suite, which boasts an extensive array of performance-enhancing features including the VIA V4 bus at 400MHz, sixteen pipeline stages, sophisticated branch prediction and an efficiency-enhanced 128KB full-speed exclusive L2 cache, ensuring the processor’s low power consumption doesn’t come at the expense of performance.
The VIA Eden processor also provides execute protection (NX), preventing the proliferation of malicious software such as worms and viruses, and is used in Microsoft Windows XP with SP2.
Via: Onesgadget
