Any sightings of the TM8000 yet?

[MadRat]

I'm interested to see if 4 ALU's made a difference from the 2 ALU design.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'm really interested in the new Transmetta efficeon series of microprocessors myself, so bump^ They keep promoting the 256-bit VLIW engine and new Code Morphing Software with longrun power and thermal management technology, and with the on-die memory controller, 4x AGP, HT, 400DDR, 1ghz+ speeds, and nForce3 Go 120 Southbridge plus how small the combo is they could make a sweet tablet PC I'm hoping. I'd love to have the wifey be able to carry a little tablet that still packs some punch and has excellent battery life. Any thoughts on how the flash memory bus interface it features could be used in handhelds and such?

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i bought me some tmta stock a few weeks ago and it's down 17%

c'mon get those processors out already and get some design wins !!

my next laptop or pda could just be transmeta powered

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
yeah i bought me some tmta stock a few weeks ago and it's down 17%

c'mon get those processors out already and get some design wins !!

my next laptop or pda could just be transmeta powered

I think you're savy to have it now, I may jump in too! I knew I should grab AMD when it was sub $10 but went another direction at that point and obviously have lived to regret the decision to hold off

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i regret not grabbing tmta under 1 buck and amd around 3 bucks
coulda tripled and quintupled my money respectively in a matter of months

now it's hard to say how this will pan out

 

[Soulkeeper]

i think this chip has a lot of promise in the ultra small laptop/device sector
dunno why they havn't started shipping them yet
probably real soon tho

i wonder if they can do seti good like the centrino chips

 

[MadRat]

Some third party announced Southbridge support was finished for it. Should be sometime soon I'd expect.

 

[Soulkeeper]

nvidia is making nforce chipsets for them too
this should be interesting

 

[User1001]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
yeah i bought me some tmta stock a few weeks ago and it's down 17%

c'mon get those processors out already and get some design wins !!

my next laptop or pda could just be transmeta powered

The shareholders previously sued the company b/c they took to long to get their products out (or apparently designed).