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To: Scumbria who wrote (5722)	8/19/2000 1:21:06 PM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<< 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. >> Perhaps I was recalling the amount of transistors in the logical part of the core, here's a quote from transmeta web page about the chip: "This unique approach to executing x86 code eliminates millions of transistors, replacing them with software. The current implementation of the Crusoe processor uses roughly one-quarter of the logic transistors required for an all-hardware design of similar performance. " Perhaps they have some other good power saving methods that they can share with us as well, but I'd still speculate a lot of what they're getting is from fewer transistors, and simpler logic.