San Jose (CA) - Transmeta announced that it will debut a new generation of its TM8800 Efficeon processor later this year. The processor will be clocked at 2 GHz and support Intel's SSE3 instruction set.
Transmeta demonstrated the updated processor, likely to be named Efficeon 2, at its booth at the Fall Processor Forum and provided some technical details. The 90 nm-chip will significantly boost the currently highest clock speed of the chip (1.6 GHz) and maintain low power consumption. The thermal design power (TDP) is expected to stay below 25 Watts with 1.4 to 1.6 GHz achieving seven Watts and at 1 to 1.1 GHz only three Watts, according to chief technology officer David Ditzel.
