VIA readying one-watt Eden processor?
Apparently, VIA is hoping to stretch the battery life of devices that sport its forthcoming ULV processor, as the chip manages to hum along at 500MHz yet only consumes one-watt of power. According to DigiTimes, the company announced the CPU during a press conference held yesterday, and also noted that it will "adopt the same VIA V4 bus and 21- x 21-millimeter nanoBGA2 packaging as other Eden models." Reportedly, several industrial PC makers "including Advantech have already adopted the new Eden ULV processor" and hopes to have products shipping to market later this month, and if this thing actually does sip power as its creator suggests, we've all ideas Advantech won't be the last firm placing an order.[Via Wired]
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I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 17th 2007 11:39PM
AMD Already has 1w, 0.5w, and .25w Geode processors. How do these stack up?
Uejji @ Aug 18th 2007 12:38AM
...What?
The AMD Geode 500 MHz processor consumes 1.8W of power. This thing uses almost half the power for the same clockspeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Geode
Peter Hanson @ Aug 18th 2007 9:02PM
The 1.8W on the standard Geode (lx800) is power consumption of the entire chipset, rather than the 1W for the CPU. The CPU itself runs at 0.9W. So, the Geode is still a lower power CPU. Once you add the more complex Unichrome 2 Pro graphics to the chipset, the VIA alternative will use quite a lot more.
It'll be interesting when Intel releases the Menlow@2W early next year, which has the performance of a Pentium M @800MHz with an updated GMA950 built in.
Anthony @ Aug 18th 2007 9:11PM
Ah, the Geodes are 1.5W@600MHz (LX900), 0.9W@500MHz (LX800) and 0.8W@433MHz (LX700). And those are just the processor cores - add on the support chips and you're looking at 3.2W, 2.4W and 1.9W respectively (plus memory). Where are you getting 0.5W and 0.25W from?
[AMD Geode™ LX Processor Family] http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_13022%5E13057,00.html
I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 18th 2007 11:30PM
Anthony, that's what I was thinking of. Thanks!
syliss @ Aug 18th 2007 1:09AM
That would be hella sweet in a nice linux lappy, that would make a battery last pretty long, well for the most part. I just wonder home much it will cost?!
NovaLand @ Aug 18th 2007 1:37AM
Unfortunally u need a power-consuming display to go with it.
ethana2 @ Aug 18th 2007 3:12PM
How much power do I need to drive an OLED in a dark room?
Aaron @ Aug 18th 2007 1:28AM
whoa!!!!!! 5000mhz... this really is the future!
tehpwnmstr @ Aug 18th 2007 1:52AM
unfortunately, its only 500 mhz. ill still probalby pick one up for the pico-itx carputer im building. i hadnt decideed on a cpu, but i may just use this one.
Darwin @ Aug 18th 2007 8:37AM
No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. That's 500,000,000,000mHz.
SignificantMind @ Aug 18th 2007 1:56AM
Its nice to see as we(in technology wise) are getting conservative and more Eco-friendlyish since technology is growing vastly, would be good on a laptop for people who are simple and that bother to use Linux(Ubuntu as I am referring) that who are travelers, but myself I pretty much a person that gets on a computer daily, mostly surfing the web but at some points put bunch of 'stress load' on the cpu probably this processor(500mhz) wouldn't handle some of my programs that I use once in a while. Really though anyone thats just a normal web surfer wouldn't/shouldn't really complain having this. This is just my opinion though about 500mhz I really don't know for sure its the speed or Front Side Bus.
Jonathon @ Aug 20th 2007 10:38AM
I'm kinda in the same boat, but here is what I am hoping (at least for my usage patterns) is the new trend. *Really* cheap (
terrence @ Aug 18th 2007 3:12AM
COOOOOOOOL
Taylor @ Aug 18th 2007 7:16AM
Someone should make a quad-core with these - 2GHz with just 4W of power. That'd make a great HTPC processor.
alex @ Aug 18th 2007 8:51AM
you have no idea how multi core works quad 500 is nothing like a 2 ghz
dj-kenpo @ Aug 18th 2007 10:37AM
wow... that would be great for say, programing where all I need is notepad.
when I went from an n610c-> n620c the same chasis, but a p4 -> pentium M, I saw the battery life go from 2.1 hours to 4.5 hours. that's a pretty large jump for ONLY a change in cpu.
while the screen effects everything, blah blah, I saw the leap in just a change of chip. and the pentium M runs at 5-27 watts soit woudl be easy to assume a comparable 14" notebook with a harddrive/dvd burner 1gb ram could muster 10-15 hours off the new eden. assuming the same size battery of course.
PEZ @ Aug 18th 2007 11:06AM
Everyone commenting in this thread is an idiot.
stewart @ Aug 18th 2007 12:57PM
... including YOU!
ethana2 @ Aug 18th 2007 3:14PM
I hope they ditch x86 and make their own distro... We need that kind of change.
Kelly @ Aug 20th 2007 1:15AM
I hope Mead ditches 8.5x11 paper and comes out with their own brand of pen.
Wait, what?
eric cumbee @ Aug 18th 2007 7:16PM
1 watt, that is pretty impressive, 500mhz not so much. But it is a start, it should only be a matter of time before we see a 1watt 1ghz cpu
syed @ Aug 19th 2007 12:16AM
great for a simple 24/7 home server application