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Transmeta To Release Next Generation CPU
CodeShark writes: "According to this story at CNN, Transmeta is set to release their new TM6000 microprocessor this afternoon. The chip apparently incorporates some of the functions usually provided by high-performance (and high price!) chip sets. Transmeta is reporting a further reduction in power requirements by 44% and sees the laptop and sub-laptop markert as the primary markets for their new CPU. Intel and AMD claim to be catching up with the Transmeta chips in terms of power requirements, I'd be curious to find out what the real world comparisons might make of those claims ..." If anyone out there is at Microprocessor Forum, please say in comments any further details that are made clear there.
Here's the press release from transmeta.
Enjoy.
From what I've noticed, crusoe chips really only show their worth in the smaller sub-notbooks, like the sony picture book, where there isn't room for a cdrom or floppy drive. They also don't have the heat/fire problems that have cursed many laptop manufacturers. I have an old gateway laptop that after 20-30 minutes of use gets too hot to keep on my lap.
As mentioned on MacCentral IBM just released some PowerPC G3 bundling all their recent breakthroughs and going up to 1 GHz.
"SOI and SiLK taken together with IBM's smallest 0.13-micron copper manufacturing process has resulted in a processor that typically dissipates 3.6W of power at 800MHz [...]"
...will these Transmeta chips follow the same 'faster, hotter, more expensive' trend that AMD is following?
AMD's latest CPUs use less power and generate less heat. When they get to 0.13 micron with silicon-on-insulator and copper interconnects (Q1 next year), AMD chips will use 20% less power and run 20% cooler.
Personally, I preferred Zmodem.