Transmeta Demos 2 GHz Efficeon Processor

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
Transmeta announced that it will debut a new generation of its TM8800 Efficeon processor later this year. The processor will be clocked at 2 GHz and support Intel's SSE3 instruction set.
Transmeta demonstrated the updated processor, likely to be named Efficeon 2, at its booth at the Fall Processor Forum and provided some technical details. The 90 nm-chip will significantly boost the currently highest clock speed of the chip (1.6 GHz) and maintain low power consumption. The thermal design power (TDP) is expected to stay below 25 Watts with 1.4 to 1.6 GHz achieving seven Watts and at 1 to 1.1 GHz only three Watts, according to chief technology officer David Ditzel.
Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    How good are these processors? Are they consumer grade, or perhaps somesort of special type for servers or something?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    they're definitely not server chips, although low power blades could be useful for certain things.

    They're for "cheap, light, and efficient".... tablet PCs most especially.

    I'm intrigued by them... I would like to try one out one day....
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    I'm betting they'll still run like crap. Only instead of running like 500MHz P3s, they'll now run like 750MHz P3s. :rolleyes:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Good luck finding a P3/750 that can run a laptop for 10 hours on battery ;D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    The ULV PIII probably would... or the ULV Pentium M...
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited October 2004
    they're actually supprisingly much better than you think geeky, great for low power applications, they don't have all that much FP power, but they are extremely good over regular consumer applications (Office, music, internet browsing). They're good for pretty much everything that your non-power user would use
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    They're still slow. :p
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    Man 3 watts at 1Ghz!!
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