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To: Elmer who wrote (96803)	1/19/2000 9:43:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Elmer & Intel Investors - Breath Easy - Transmeta is now "fessing up" to their performance hits. Such as the following: news.cnet.com "The performance of the 5400 running at 667 MHz is about the same as a Pentium III running at 500 MHz, said Doug Laird, vice president of product development. However, Transmeta is encouraging the use of benchmarks that account for the temporary lag during the translation and for the extended battery life the chips will enable. " That implies that the Crusoe is only 75% as fast as an equivalently clocked Pentium III - BEST CASE (for TransMeta !). Thus, TransMeta's 500 MHz 5400 - not yet available - will be equivalent to a 375 MHz Pentium III. Now - because of this, Intel's power consumption should be DERATED as WELL !!! In other words, it would be TOTALLY inappropriate to compare a 667 MHz Crusoe chip to a 667 Pentium III - since the Crusoe chip only performs as fast as a 500 MHz Pentium III. Thus, the proper POWER comparison would be to compare a 667 MHz Transmeta Cruseo chip to a 500 MHz Pentium III MOBILE chip. Paul

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