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Building upon VIA's leadership in offering the most power efficient computing products on the market, VIA Carbon Free Computing is a set of programs and products designed to help individuals and organizations reduce their impact on the environment. Offering the world's first Carbon Free processors, VIA works with partners around the world to offset harmful carbon emissions and so improve the environment and give back to the community.

The VIA Motherboard with embedded processor deliver substantial cost savings due to their low power consumption.
They also advantages in the following areas:

To underscore the importance of the environmental impact of computing, VIA is introducing a new benchmark, TreeMark™, intended as a useful tool for organizations looking to balance environmental impact in their computing purchase decisions. The methodology behind the calculations, validated by independent consulting firm Best Foot Forward Ltd, take into account average use of a PC and derive the amount of carbon dioxide created as a by-product of the electricity generated to power the processor over its operational lifetime – and, thus, the number of trees required to offset that amount in the environment.

With its market-leading power efficiency, the VIA C7®-D processor requires just four broad-leaf trees to compensate for the carbon dioxide that needs to be produced over the lifetime of the PC, an average of 28 trees – or over 88% - fewer than competing desktop processors.