Transmeta (Semiconductor) (TMTA)

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Great article Steak!

. . .Transmeta has been stepping up its push into other areas.

"We're looking at servers, applications in the embedded space, applications in telecommunications. There isn't anything where the advantages of low power and minimal heat are not needed," said Frank Priscaro, Transmeta's brand development director. Priscaro added, however, that the company has by no means abandoned the market for subnotebooks and other lightweight computers whose designs are enabled because they need no fan.

This quarter, Transmeta plans to ship in volume its TM5800, the latest version of its flagship Crusoe processor. The TM5800 is built on a 0.13-micron process. It uses half the power and is half the cost of its TM5600, built with 0.18-micron process tools, Priscaro said. In the fourth quarter, the company plans to release its first system-on-a-chip – the TM6000, which integrates the processor, graphics, the north bridge to graphics and memory and the south bridge to a peripheral bus. The chip is expected to run at about 1 GHz.

Sure would like to hear more of what he means when he talks of future applications in "telecommunications."

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