Transmeta Astro -- More Details

chill writes "We've recently seen announcements, product launches and reviews from AMD and Intel on their new low power chipsets. Not to be left out, Transmeta has more details on their forthcoming Astro processor. Slashdot covered the Astro back at Comdex in November."

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More competition for processor production

[yozzle]

The more processors we have competing, the more Intel and AMD will push ahead in their research to make even faster (and hopefully cooler) processors. Transmeta's upcoming release of the Astro processor will provide this competition for them. I hope we can see improvement in the field of PC processors.

Re:More competition for processor production

[Hanno]

make even faster (and hopefully cooler) processors

Decide. You can only have one at a time.

They either give you faster CPUs or cooler CPUs.

First, they go for faster for the price of creating way more heat. Those were the last few years.

Right now, the market has decided that it doesn't need any more speed and that it is more concerned about heat and energy consumption. Alas, not for enviromental reasons, since then we'd see low voltage CPUs and chipsets in desktops, but because it affects laptop battery life and it's potentially unpleasant.

I hope that low voltage CPUs will be seen more often in desktops. I hate my computer's cooling fans.