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First "Carbon-Free" CPU Fights Global Warming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the green-costs-green dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VIA is doing its bit to fight Global Warming by introducing the 'world's first carbon-free' desktop PC processor. The RoHS-compliant C7-D consumes 20W at 1.8GHz, and is accompanied by a 'Clean Computing Initiative' that aims to offset the chip's environmental cost. According to a LinuxDevices report, VIA has pledged that atmospheric carbon released during generation of the power needed to run the chip throughout its expected life-cycle will be offset by regional conservation, reforestation, and energy programs initiated or contributed to by VIA."

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  1. Carbon chips by gr8_phk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm still waiting for chips made out of diamond semiconductor. It'll be hard to label them "carbon free" when they're made from the stuff.

  2. They may be able to offset the carbon output... by Bryansix · · Score: 2, Funny

    but what are they doing to counteract all the hot air they keep expelling?

  3. Re:I'm doing my part by Abreu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, to offset the carbon production of a Hummer SUV you need more than that... perhaps installing solar panels, or donating a lot of money to conservation efforts...

    Damn, even then I wouldnt be sure... perhaps seven years of penance as a Franciscan brother might do the trick.

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  4. You need a better power supply by wsanders · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the power supply not the CPU that makes the difference. My power supply separates the electrons made fomr non-renewable sources and returns those to the mains for the rest of the ignorant world to use, and then uses only the ones generated by renewable sources.

    I also contribute to reforestation efforts in China - each $50 funds a slave laborer who can plant 100 trees a day as part of his "reeducation".

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  5. Carbon-free? What then? Nuclear? by jgercken · · Score: 2, Funny

    Myself I power my whole setup off a giant water wheel under my sink faucet. Sure I use 5000 gal of water a day but the energy savings to the environment is worth it.

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  6. Biggest element reducing power consumption? by Trespass · · Score: 2, Funny

    The fact that next to noone will use these chips.

  7. Re:Very interesting by Ana10g · · Score: 2, Funny

    But, if you let the smoke out, it won't work anymore! I let the smoke out of a machine once, and without the smoke, it melted!

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  8. Re:I'm doing my part by Afrosheen · · Score: 2, Funny

    The H3 is awesome. It's the only vehicle in the world that, at a filling station, if left idling while pumping gas into it, it will never fill up.