by Wolfgang Gruener, 24 Oct 2005 16:58
San Jose (CA) - P.A. Semi is a new player in the processor market that competes for a portion of the cut-throat CPU market. The company hopes to carve out its place by avoiding direct confrontation with Intel: P.A. Semi's 65 nm low-power dual-core system-on-a-chip design is based on IBM's Power Architecture. Announced today, the first 2 GHz chips are scheduled to sample by Q3 2006.
Low-power processors? Listening to P. A. Semi, we cannot help thinking about another company that was about to take the processor market by storm by introducing a technology that consumed much less power than any other existing chip architecture. Almost six years ago, it was Transmeta that had developed a revolutionary processor that was promised a rosy future - until the first processors were physically available and until Intel had re-directed its marketing forces and product development.
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