Not to be outdone in the swath of processor releases in the last couple weeks, VIA's rolling out their latest chip, the C7.

"The C7 is based on the 'Esther' core, which VIA claims is the world's smallest, lowest power and most secure native x86 processor... The C7 is set to take the clock frequency up to 2-GHz and consume a maximum of 20 watts, thanks to the use of an IBM 90-nanometer manufacturing process that combines silicon-on-insulator and strained silicon technologies."