Transmeta (Semiconductor) (TMTA)

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Transmeta intros nifty mini motherboard

CES 2005 Tinier than tiny
By Charlie Demerjian: Sunday 09 January 2005, 17:36

TRANSMETA HAD A REALLY NEAT motherboard at CES this year, it was extremely small. If you notice the pen sitting on it, you can get a good idea how small this is. It is a complete mobo also, with a CF and DIMM slot, plus just about everything else you would expect from a laptop. The reason I say laptop is that it is a laptop mobo. The size allows it to do some really neat things it they could not do last year. Remember the Sharp laptop from last year? Remember how thin and light it was? Now imagine one a little thicker with a DVD built in. This is going to be one cool laptop, and it should be on sale soon. The MSRP is about $1899, and the one from last year without the DVD is $1499.

Transmeta was also showing off a 2GHz Efficion CPU, no word on ship date, and a bunch of tiny mobos. There was the usual Longrun 2 technology demo running on these boards, with deep sleep power consumption on the 2GHz model in the 50-60mW range. Without LR2, it was in the 150-200mW range, quite an improvement.

Last they had a bunch of media center PCs, all of which were much more polished than the one they had at Computex. The current Efficions could decode multiple video streams in realtime, they had one playing on the screen and another on a media center extender a few feet away. Overall, I think Transmeta is a good fit for media center PCs because of the ability to run fanless.

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