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Pix of The Crusoe Chips
A reader pointed us over to Transmetazone, a Transmeta Weblog, (Hey, why not!). They've got some cool pictures of the Crusoe chips - to scale. Take a gander at the TM5400 & the TM3120.
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The push-pin is a much better investment in computing power than a crusoe. For the price of the Crusoe you can buy several hundred push-pins which can be used to poke or stab your way into getting someone ELSE to buy you the Crusoe. Or two.
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On the website they said they didn't know what those four holes around the microprocessor were for. They're for mounting a heatsink. The slot one celerons use the same architecture for mounting their heatsinks.
Well, the crusoe is indeed a very tiny looking chip in both of its forms. However, it should be remembered that these chips are only every this size as a bare unit that they are now; unless the unit is to be 'hard-wired' to the mobo (removing the possibility of future upgrade) the chip will have to be mounted on a 'plug'.
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It can be noticed that the PII/PIII and AMD K6 / Athlons all are mounted on 'plugs' which are then inserted into a socket on the mobo. Have you ever broken up an old CPU and discovered the size of the actual chip: typically no much more than 2x2cm. (I submit here that maybe the PIII 'plug' is a little on the gigantic side considering the chip within
Not to worry tho: if what you are looking for is a hugely powerful miniture PDA, a hard-wired crusoe is definately a top option, as for a laptop or even desktop; a plug option has to be the way to promote sales with the option of upgradability
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Not to sound sour but this Transmeta hype is beginning to get a bit galling, we've seen a lot of pictures of chips, we've seen suggestions of users, but in terms of cold hard reality its been a bit on the thin side. Every dribble from Transmeta is slapped onto Slashdot as if this is the defacto winner. Come on guys get a bit of perspective, they appear to be a great company with some great people, but many companies have failed even though their ideas seemed the coolest or the best.
I wish Transmeta all the success they can earn, but as with the ignoring of the Windows2000 launch, this is exactly the sort of attitude that
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
You have missed a very important thing. What are all these pins for? They are more than on a P6. And considering that the north bridge is integrated on chip they actually should be less. Somethings's strange here...
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
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I know that money isn't a big topic around here, but everyone wants to know when Transmeta is going to IPO.. I was looking at the names of the top people in Transmeta and the Chief Financial Officer would be the most likely to have the details and plans for an IPO. So I decided to research the dude...
"Dan E. Steimle"
Went to google and the first thing that came up was a lawsuit against the guy buy stock holders of a company called "Hybrid Networks". They are charging him and others with Securities fraud. The defendents demanded a trial by jury.
This makes me nervous about Transmeta. Why would Dave Ditzel hire someone like this (with a grey background, and possibly pending litigation for SEC fraud)????
Scarry... Anyone have any thoughts?