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I haven't been keeping track for CPU companies, but a Transmetta Crusoe? What the heck is that? I saw it in a value brand pc at Frys, but the sales counseler was as baffled as I was as to how it fared against AMD and Intel. Can anyone shed any light to this CPU? It's speed, comparison, website?
Been around for a while. The specialty of the Crusoe is very low power. Another company fab-less company with woes of late.
ragardless of this they do have decent performance not amd or intel level, but itll run cirles around a c3Quote:
Originally posted by DeadKen
Been around for a while. The specialty of the Crusoe is very low power. Another company fab-less company with woes of late.
Are you sure of that, it runs x86 instructions in software - not hardware. I would suspect that it offers performance in the C3 range if not a bit slower.
C3 speed thereabouts. FPU is faster and integer is slower.
Emulation is not realy right. It re-compiles the code it runs into it native instruction set. So the more you run the progam (like Word) the faster it will run. The process is not that much unlike FX32 which the Alpha used to run x86 code. Efficeincy is sort of low......around 1/2 speed of a pure port of the same program.
So the chip only runs half the speed it is capable of (if code was written for it).
They are highly interesting chips. Hell, if you wanted to, and they worked on it, I believe that you could even get it to run Apple's software. Very cool thing that chip is.
Performance-wise, it's not in the range of the Duron or Celeron. Heat-wise, it's very cool. Power-wise, it uses practically no power to run. Very cool idea, but nothing is really happening with them. Honestly, I'm shocked to see that they are still kicking.
It's all sony's fault ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Galen of Edgewood
Honestly, I'm shocked to see that they are still kicking.
edit: forgot to say, saw a sony mini laptop (don't know the proper term :p ) run winXP on it and it ran ok! so maybe, there is life in it yet.
It's primary market is the pocket PC. IMHO, using that little bugger within a WindowsCE device would probably extend the battery life x a factor of 10, reduce the heat dissipation...
And i'm not to sure about this, cause i've read it on a newsgroup posting, but the OnStar thingy in luxury GM vehicles might be using it soon.