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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (5721)	8/19/2000 1:05:12 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Doug, This isn't really my subject of expertise, but if I remember correctly from the last Transmeta lovefest with the media, the chip only had something like in the hundred thousands of transistors because almost all the logic was done through software and not hardware. I think that's the main reason why the chip takes such little power, and that's certainly doesn't seem like something that would be applicable to the athlon. The Crusoe cache requires at least 10,000,000 transistors. Active power management (dynamically dropping voltage and frequency) are techniques which could be extremely valuable for any laptop processor. Scumbria

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