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To: JDN who wrote (96739)1/19/2000 4:08:00 PM
From: phbolton  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
"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."

About 80% performance at the same MHz sounds about right given the other info available. Some of the comments posted below refer to emulation that constantly converts one code into another. The transmeta does this only once per application which costs about one second.



To: JDN who wrote (96739)1/19/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
JDN - <I am not so sure of that. their low power in notebook applications sure sounds interesting. JDN >

Did anyone see the MOT thing today about relatively inexpensive methanol based fuel cells powering mobile hardware?

Seems like something like that would allow long battery life (compared to today's batteries) and you could still have powerful hardware, without the need for the emulator stuff. Just my unwashed .02.

PB


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