Transmeta Introduces The Efficeon

brentlaminack writes "Information Week and others are reporting on Transmeta's new Efficeon chip. 1.1 GHz, 7 Watts, 1MB cache, 130 nanometer technology. A marked improvement over their previous generation. Let's hope they can capitalize on this before Intel starts filling the same niche. Looks like a nice product, Linus and Co." Update: 10/15 00:22 GMT by T : woobieman29 writes "Looks like this is a good day for high-efficiency processors. Hot on the heels of Transmetas announcement of the Efficeon, VIA Technologies has announced the release of it's latest low-power processor, the NanoBGA EDEN-N. Capable of running at 533MHZ (4 watts), 800MHZ (6 watts), and 1GHZ (7 watts) this appears to be a very good fit for Thin Client and other embedded devices. One really interesting feature is the on-chip Padlock security suite incorporating AES encryption."

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Re:fp, yo

[toddestan]

I would think that a 1.1ghz CPU that uses 7W of power is newsworthy. It seems that VIA is the only x86 CPU maker out there that seems to make these kind of processors.

I have a hunch that in a few years people are going to become uninterested in faster computers to do things like office apps, email, and web browsing and instead will demand smaller, cheaper, and quieter computers. At that time Intel and AMD may find that many people are not interested in the Pentium VI Supa-Extreme Edition or the Athlon 128XXP++++, but rather in VIA's powerful enough but energy efficient chips.

Excuse me?

[Doktor Memory]

While god knows I'm the first to agree with the general sentiment that the slashdot editors are sucking the glass dick (see my sig, etc), are you seriously maintaining that the release of a white paper (ie: "We plan for our next generation of computers to be EVEN FASTER, woo!") detailing a series of products with no ship dates attached is much more important than a product that has actually shipped?

The Efficeon (god, what an awful name) and the new Eden are both real products that I can now order in batches of 1 or more. The press release you cite is just Sun saying -- again -- that this time, really for sure uh huh they've whipped the UltraSparc's performance issues...in the next version...real soon now.