Transmeta's New Smaller, Faster Chips Announced

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."

Comments

Who wants a Dick Tracey Watch?

[PaK_Phoenix]

I wonder if this will have enough horsepower, to accelerate all of the 'electronics of the future' we've been promised for so long.

Re:Why do blatent karmawhore trolls get modded up?

[IthnkImParanoid]

True, but I think the point is that a troll (OP has a sig linking to nero-online, home of horrible imagery) is being modded up in place of something that might actually contribute to a discussion. It's not so much "Hey, I wanted those points for ME!" as "Hey, this person is decreasing the signal to noise ratio of the discussion, and uses karma gaining tactics like this one to do so even more effectively, so stop helping them."

That's not whiny.

Re:Care?

[2nd Post!]

Get ye an old BlueBerry iBook then ^^