RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

Peter wrote:

In case anyone's interested, there's a cpu die photo at http://www.sandpile.org/impl/pics/centaur/c5xl/die_013_c5p.jpg showing the amount of real estate consumed by the crypto functions (it's the bottom centre, a bit hard to read the label).

I fail to understand why VIA bothered adding AES support into the CPU. When was AES last the bottleneck on a general-purpose CPU? The bottleneck tends to be modular exponentiations, yet VIA failed to include a modular exponentiation engine. Strange. --Lucky Green