Hardware Extreme has posted a review on the VIA C3 933MHz Processor.
Transmeta targets to mobile market and may be a concurrent to VIA C3, but from the technological point of view C3 is somehowbetween any other x86 CPU from AMD or Intel and a Transmeta Crusoe. When a instruction translation occurs, the CPU looses time so the performance may not be as high as the performance of a traditional CPU running at the same frequency. However, there is one big advantage, the use of a relatively low number of transistors. Practically VIA C3 wants to provide a good performance while keeping the heat level very low. From the engineering point of view, VIA C3 is a very simple CPU. Many advanced optimization techniques like out of order execution are not implemented because they require a lot of onchip logic which in turn reduce the cost of the CPU. Instead VIA C3 implements an advanced memory bus managing technique...Read more
