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Transmeta's New Smaller, Faster Chips Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the mini-vroom-vroom dept.

billstewart writes "Transmeta announced their new 5900 and 5700 CPUs. They're 50% smaller than the 5800, intended for low-power, low-heat, high-speed applications, and contain an integrated Northbridge. They're sampling now, production in January 2004, and expect to have a mini-ITX board out in 1Q04. The core chip is a 128-bit VLIW hidden by x86 emulation (as opposed to their new Efficeon, which is 256-bit VLIW.) The difference between the 5900 and 5700 seems to be L2 cache size. There are several other stories on Google News."

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  1. Yes, but what for? by Sebastopol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has transmeta found a real design win yet? Something over 1m units is considered REAL. They've been issuing press releases since they started, and i have yet to see any success. i guess loads of venture capital are keeping them afloat, b/c their SECC filings show pathetic revenue.

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  2. Re:Care? by eamacnaghten · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Linus is still employed by Transmeta.

    Not any more. He now works for OSDL

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  3. Cheap, low power cpu's are great ... by jubei · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Until you look at the prices for a typical mini-itx case.

    I hope the mini-itx format becomes much more popular. We need more competition in the tiny case area.

    Any good sources of reasonably priced cases?