design itself cannot qualify as RISC however. Business Contracts VIA's embedded platform products have reportedly (2005) been adopted in Nissan's car series, the Lafesta, Murano, and Presage. These and other high volume industrial applications are starting to generate big profits for VIA as the small form factor and low power advantages close embedded deals. Legal issues On the basis of the IDT Centaur acquisition, VIA appears to have come into possession of at least three patents, which cover key aspects of processor technology used by Intel. On the basis of the negotiating leverage these patents offered, in 2003 VIA arrived at an agreement with Intel that allowed for a ten-year patent cross license, enabling VIA to continue to design and manufacture x86 compatible CPUs. VIA was also granted a three-year period of grace in which it could continue to use Intel socket infrastructure. See also List of VIA C3 microprocessors List of VIA Eden microprocessors List of VIA microprocessors References Further reading External links VIA-C3-Nehemiah review VIA C3 Gold CPU - 1 GHz VIA's Small & Quiet Eden Platform GHz_processor_review/ VIA C3 1 GHz Processor Review BlueSmoke - Review : VIA C3 Processor http://www.cpushack.com/VIA.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070717014946/http://www.sandpile.org/impl/c5.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20060615180950/http://www.sandpile.org/impl/c5xl.htm VIA C3 Kernel for FreeBSD C3 Embedded microprocessors