Re: The Crosoe Processor vs StrongARM

[Jim Studt <jim@federated.com>]

> I was wondering which one that consumes the most power, the StrongARM or
> Transmeta's Crosoe
> and of course which one that gives out the most heat.

Crusoe consumes "less than one watt on average when active" and
"as little as 8mW when idle".
(From http://www.transmeta.com/crusoe/lowpower/batlife.html)

The existing StrongARM 110 (three year old technology) is 1000mW
for the 233MHz part.  Intel announced a successor StrongARM last
year to be available "first half of 2000" that will be 600MHz and
450mW, down to 150MHz and 40mW.
(http://developer.intel.com/design/strong/SA-2_web.htm)

> and i also wonder if there is a good information site about the
> ARM processor type as well as the Crosoe processor family.(Not the
> offical Transmeta homepage whit other words)

The StrongARM manuals can all be found at
http://developer.intel.com/design/strong/

Transmeta has not publicly published their processor manuals yet.


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                                     Jim Studt, President
                                     The Federated Software Group, Inc.