With the advanced StepAhead™ Technology Suite, the VIA C7 processor delivers exceptional performance for all mobile applications.

Scalable up to 2.0GHz, the VIA C7 processor takes full advantage of all the StepAhead features, such as the sixteen pipeline stages together with advanced branch prediction that predicts and gathers data needed to optimally run applications while saving valuable CPU cycles and reducing power consumption. This is complemented by an efficiency-enhanced 128KB full-speed exclusive L2 cache with 32-way associatively for memory optimization and enhanced digital media streaming. To ensure the VIA C7 processor is constantly supplied with data, the VIA C7 processor integrates the VIA V4 bus for operation of up to 800MHz for speedier communication to system memory, storage, and peripheral devices.

The VIA C7 processor also integrates VIA TwinTurbo™ technology which integrates two Phase Lock Loops (PLLs) that allows the processor to switch between ultra low power mode to full speed operation (or vice versa) in a single clock cycle, resulting in consistent performance with no performance stutters.

Other performance features include support for SSE2 and SSE3 multimedia instructions as well as MMX instructions, and a full-speed Floating Point Unit (FPU) that ensures excellent performance for digital media applications. To further boost multimedia performance, the VIA C7 processor is designed to be paired with VIA C-Series chipsets which can enable flawless digital video playback and streaming with their integrated hardware MPEG-2 decoder and MPEG-4 accelerator. As part of VIA's Distributed Performance platform design philosophy, the VIA C-Series chipsets take on much of the hard work involved with decoding of highly compressed video files, freeing more processor resources for other tasks, such as delivering smooth digital video playback.