13.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Think-pad without Crusoe
IBM will not bring note-books with the Crusoe processor by Transmeta to the market.
On detailed reasons the company keeps silent.
The official statement from IBM said the processor would not fit to the current
marketing concept. The decision not to equip think-pads with this processor is
a bad blow for Transmeta. An unfavourable timing, because from November the
company's shares shall be deald in Nasdaq. Senior analyser Peter Glaskowsky from
Microdesign Resources assumes that IBM wouldn't like to use the processor due to the
bad performance. Testings with Sony note-books would have turned out that a Crusoe
processor 700MHz would not be faster than an Pentium 233MHz, Glaskowsky added.
[News message: 13. Dec. 2000, 07:04] [Comments: 0]
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