VIA C7-M
Wow… looks really sweet !
- About 7 hours battery life
- Much less heat
- Very low power consumption
- Security features: 2 (TWO) RNG (Random Number Generator), also AES, Montgomery multiplication, SH1, SH2 accelerator. And NO DRM.
- NX support (anti buffer-overflow exploit)
- Advanced Power Management: Up to 15000 faster P-state transition than Pentium-M, etc
- Heat control: TM1, TM2, and emergency shutdown if somehow the chip still manages to overheat. However, normally, C7-M is not expected to need even a heatsink; so those heat control facilities seem rather, unneeded?
- Speed: 1.5 GHz
Note that VIA also produces desktop version of C7, which should perform better than this mobile version.
The question: is there any (serious) catch to all these goodness ?
Still trying to find the answer for this at the moment. But I like how VIA refuses to implement DRM, so any laptop/computer with this chip will have better chance of being bought by me.
April 12th, 2006 04:40
ini prosesor atau notebook? kalau prosesor, 7 hours of operation itu based on what? berapa watt yang dia konsumsi saat full processing?
btw, NX = no execute, itu bukannya lebih ke arah mencegah virus?
April 13th, 2006 01:31
#1 - ternyata saya lupa ngasih link ke artikel aslinya… [ ini dia ]
C7-M ini prosesor untuk notebook. 7 jam itu melakukan operasi yang sama dengan notebook lainnya yang berbeda prosesor. Saat peak, sepertinya dia mengkonsumsi 7.5 watt.
NX = no execute, tujuannya adalah mencegah data untuk jadi di eksekusi ( dikenal juga dengan istilah buffer overflow). Nah, ini (buffer overflow) sering di exploit oleh virus.
padahal sih, [ tidak juga ].
Walhasil, untuk marketing, dibilang bahwa prosesor dengan NX kebal virus