Comdex 2002 Wrapup - AMD, NVIDIA & Transmeta

Transmeta's Impressive TM5800 Product List

Although not a very high performing solution, Transmeta's TM5800 CPU has a significant advantage over Intel's mobile solutions - physical size. Because of the CPU's on-die North Bridge and the tiny size of the chip itself (courtesy of a software based instruction decoder), motherboards can be made very small. The cool operation of the CPU and small form factor packaging enable some very tiny designs, which is what we're seeing on the market today.

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Crusoe based motherboards can be very small thanks to the on-die North Bridge and small packaging.

Transmeta's suite was full of current TM5800 design wins and we snapped a few pictures for you:

Fujitsu had a pair of notebooks on display; their small form factor is pretty much the norm when it comes to Transmeta design wins:

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Innolabs had a Tablet PC running the TM5800; PaceBook has a similar offering with the PaceBlade: