Transmeta Unveils New, Smaller Crusoe Chip
Reuters | at | by Mike
Transmeta Corp., which designs low-power-consuming processors for laptop computers, on Monday announced a new chip that it said uses one-third the space on a notebook's motherboard that its current Crusoe processors do. Santa Clara, California-based Transmeta said that because the Crusoe takes up less space than current versions of its chip, it is ideal for use in a growing number of smaller, thinner and lighter notebooks and handheld PCs.
Transmeta, which warned on Oct. 8 that third-quarter sales will be $5 million and has suffered from dismal notebook sales in Japan, its principal market, said the Crusoe TM6000 will be available in the second half of 2002 at speeds running at 1 Gigahertz, or one billion cycles per second.