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Via One-ups Transmeta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lower-power-equals-happier-laptops dept.

An aonymous reader submitted that"Via just announced the Eden platform, which promises lower power consumption than Transmeta. If it follows the C3 line of CPUs, I'm guessing it will also deliver much better performance at a lower cost (the C3s gave significantly better performance than Transmeta, but at just under 10W, so a bit more power)."

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  1. TMTA:RIP by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 5, Informative
    Its fairly obvious at this point that there is little to no commercial support for the Transmeta product line.

    Power consumption and heat dissipation are issues to consumers and manufacturers, but clearly not enough to warrant employing a lower performance architecture at this point. Added to which, it appears that competitors were capable of rolling out competing technology far too quickly - Transmeta never hada chance to get support.

    At this point it seems that the smartest thing Transmeta can do is start shopping its assets around to possible suitors.

  2. Crusoe 6 Watts? by derwagner · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isn't Crusoe below 1 Watt when it's idle, and at 6 Watts at full load?
    Very stupid comparison.