Transmeta is a company known for developing specialized processors, particularly the PowerPC architecture.
Transmeta is a company known for developing specialized processors, particularly the PowerPC architecture.
Really, I haven't heard that name for quite some time—since 2009. They used to make CPUs with a feature called Code Morphing Software (CMS) for X86 Witch performance, but it was really bad. I own a Sharp Mebius MURAMASA MP70G, which has an Efficeon TM8800 at 1.6GHz, but it runs poorly even back in the 2003–2004 era.
The main idea behind them was employing a VLIW architecture, allowing them to mimic other designs despite lower speed. They achieved only slight success in the budget laptop segment for their efficiency. Russians are adopting the same approach in Elbrus processors to replicate x86, but the results remain poor.