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Transmeta also has 130nm CPUs [0] but they were all meant to be low power. The 130nm TM5800/5900 were ~9W at their highest 1GHz rating including the integrated
by buran77 2y ago
Transmeta also has 130nm CPUs [0] but they were all meant to be low power. The 130nm TM5800/5900 were ~9W at their highest 1GHz rating including the integrated northbridge. Clock it down to 800MHz and it was a measly 5-6W. That wasn't much power to work with, especially for a CPU that was doing the extra work for the code morphing abstraction layer. The similarly clocked Pentium IIIs going around the same period were ~30W.
I had a Compaq TC1000 for some time and I while I loved it for it's exotic nature and interesting approach, it was slow as molasses.
[0] https://datasheets.chipdb.org/Transmeta/pdfs/brochures/crusoe_for_embedded_applications.pdf https://datasheets.chipdb.org/Transmeta/pdfs/brochures/cruso...