Transmeta to power HP Tablet PC
Reuters | at | by Mike
Upstart microchip designer Transmeta Corp. has cracked the market for U.S. notebook computers in a deal to supply processors for Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Tablet PC, the companies said on Monday. Transmeta, which is weathering a management shake-up and recovering from production glitches of its low-power chips, will ship its first gigahertz chips, performing a billion operations per second, with the EVO Tablet PC, which will be released later this year under the Compaq brand.
The Tablet PC announced by Microsoft Corp. and hardware partners incorporates drawing and handwriting recognition into the Windows XP operating system in an attempt to add features of a physical notebook pad to a computer. Manufactures have shown off prototypes varying from a traditional notebook with a screen that can swivel 180 degrees to allow writing to a pad without a keyboard that looks like a big personal digital assistant, which is the style of the Compaq prototype, although it is keyboard compatible.