May. 28, 2001

VIA Technologies Inc., a leading chip designer of Taiwan, said that many of Taiwan's computer manufacturers would introduce new notebook computers using its C3 and Twister chipsets in July.

Due to the cheaper processor as compared to the competition, the company said that these notebook computers would cost only between the equivalents of US$ 937 and US$ 1,250.

The new VIA C3 is a socket 370 compatible, low power processor targeting the rapidly growing market for value PCs, information PCs, notebooks, and PC digital appliances.

The C3 has a clock frequency of 733 MHz, comes with 128 Level 1 cache, and 64 KB Level 2 cache, 100/133 MHZZ front side bus support, and 3D Now! Instructions for enhanced Multimedia. Performance. It runs a full range of Windows operating systems and almost all of the world's popular computer programs