New Transmeta Efficeon CPU

POLIST8 · Post by **POLIST8** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:16 am

Press Release here:

http://investor.transmeta.com/news/20030812-115912.cfm

It's nice seeing a company that does care about efficiency and pollution more than the Ghz crown...

Keel · Post by **Keel** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:25 pm

sounds pretty good.

i would take battery life over performance in a laptop anyday. hopefully using the efficeon, there will be a laptop made with 10+ hours battery life

halcyon · Post by **halcyon** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:02 pm

That would be very nice indeed. Unfortunately previous Transmeta laptops have been almost exclusively for Japan market only.

I hope they get more plentiful and wider distribution this time.

regards,
halcyon

bengoerz · Post by **bengoerz** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:52 am

It would be nicer to see such a company make real money! I haven't seen many Transmeta chips actually in use. Same with Via's CPUs. A 12-watt VIA 1GHz C3 chip is dirt cheap, but they still don't sell. I guess it's hard when a 1.3GHz Duron is just as cheap, and can blast the socks off of the C3 at an equivalent clock rate.

Any chance AMD might go for an efficiency crown with enough push from consumers?

pingu666 · Post by **pingu666** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:59 am

hammer is effecient i think...
theres only so cheap u can produce a chip, so u get a wide variety of performance for same price. oh and u have intel being anti competitive

New Transmeta Efficeon CPU

New Transmeta Efficeon CPU

It'd be nice...