Crusoe chip

[U-96]

The London Financial Times carries details of this new CPU co-designed by Linus Torvalds for compact systems. Apparently it runs regular PC apps, but sucks only 1 Watt!

Transmeta's technology represents a breakthrough because the functions of the chip are defined by software rather than in the hardware. This will allow its microprocessors to be very small and cheap to make.

Sound interesting?
www.ft.com (http://www.ft.com) (sorry no direct link - registration required, but free!)
Article: TRANSMETA: Chip breakthrough challenges Intel
By Tom Foremski in San Francisco
www.transmeta.com (http://www.transmeta.com)

I'm sure this appears elsewhere, but front page on the FT is pretty high profile http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[BEOR999]

Heard that story on Capital Radio this morning, are they a large possible threat to Intel?

[U-96]

Possibly in the portable and handheld market. Having said that, I was already blown away when I fiddled around with my brother's palmtop Cassiopeia at Christmas. If it can keep schedules, let you take notes in text or speech, access the internet and communicate with a PC, I don't see where is left to go...
Maybe it's aimed more at commerce/engineering - sysanalysts running diagnostics, etc.

I don't think it's Intel who should be worried, but the people who make batteries.... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

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