Transmeta selects Fujitsu as foundry for 90 nm processors.Transmeta (Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , CA, www.transmeta.com), a developer and seller of software-based microprocessors, has selected Fujitsu Semiconductor (Tokyo, Japan, www.fujitsu.com) as the first foundry for its 90-nanometer (0.09-micron) generation of Efficeon processors. Engineering teams from the two companies have been working closely together to port the processor design to Fujitsu's CS100 90 nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor See CMOS. (integrated circuit) Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor - (CMOS) A semiconductor fabrication technology using a combination of n- and p-doped semiconductor material to achieve low power dissipation. (CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. ) process, which features transistors with a 40 nm physical gate length. Volume production for the 90 nm version is slated for the second-half of 2004. Transmeta's processors will offer an upgrade path for customers launching systems based on the 0.13-micron generation of Efficeon processors. The processor family will reportedly provide power efficiency for mainstream notebooks, tablet personal computers (PCs), ultra-PCs, silent desktops, blade servers and embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. . Fujitsu will build the new generation of processors at the Akiruno Technology Center near Tokyo, Japan. Fujitsu began building central processing units See CPU. (architecture, processor) central processing unit - (CPU, processor) The part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), registers, temporary buffers (CPUs) based on the technology for its internal server groups earlier this year. |
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