Transmeta TM8800 And Ultraportable Announced 116
yerdaddie writes "The just-released Transmeta TM8800 has been integrated into a new ultraportable from Sharp. The smaller 90nm variety clocks and performs better than the older 130nm TM86XX Efficeons. It also seems the Orion Multisystems personal clusters discussed earlier on slashdot will be built around this processor variant. Hopefully Transmeta will be releasing a developer kit soon for eager hardware hackers."
FUD-thought (Score:3, Insightful)
Intel and AMD stockholders must be wondering what the fuck their company's have been blowing their R&D budgets on.
Smaller companies are almost always way more productive with a buck than big companies. That's why I would withhold publishing their obituary if I were you.
Remember, Apple has been going out of business every year for two decades.
--Richard
Easy (Score:2, Insightful)
Etc...
Its a space/size thing... I'm sure they could make one if they wanted but I doubt the demand would be enough to warrant the manufacturing costs (don't forget Transmeta pays TSMC or UMC to make the chips for them).
FWIW