VIA today launched the VIA C7 processor, a new competitor to Intel"s popular mobile Pentium M processor. The C7 is based on the Esther core, it VIA claims it is the world"s smallest, lowest power and most secure native x86 processor. The VIA C7 is produced on a 90nm SOI process from IBM and the 2.0GHz version uses only 20W at peak levels while idle power consumption is as low as 0.1W.