Transmeta To Release Next Generation CPU

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 15, 2001 @08:33AM from the all-battery-life-figures-are-lies dept.

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.

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Press Release by PHanT0 · 2001-10-15 08:39 · Score: 5, Informative

Here's the press release from transmeta.
Enjoy.
How does it compare to the PowerPC by Oniros · 2001-10-15 11:15 · Score: 5, Informative

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 [...]"