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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. This is the first post. WOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. VIA green chip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a Brazillian Mahagony beowulf cluster of those!

    I dunno.
    Looked better on paper.
    *shrug*

  3. Re:20W != Carbon Free by eno2001 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh Yea! Let's here it for more extremism! I suppose that means that you cover your mouth and nose and close your eyes when someone in the stall next to you flushes and sends up a cloud of water, piss and crap into the air around you too? Oh... but I forgot, you need to shower too since that cloud likely landed in your hair and all over your arms and any other exposed skin. You'll also need to get a fresh change of clothes as well and run the dirty ones through the laundry. But wait, there's more! Are you sure the water you're showering and washing your clothes with isn't recycled piss with bits of crap in it? Didn't think so. Care to restate your position now Einstein?

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