Along with the debut of Transmeta's LongRun power-saving technology, the TM8000 has a revised architecture which can execute up to eight instructions per clock cycle.
Perhaps the biggest news for smart-device and ultraportable designers: Transmeta has integrated the North Bridge functionality onto the TM8000 die.
Smith believes it no coincidence that Transmeta has released this information on the eve of Intel's launch of its Centrino mobile-oriented processor platform. Centrino (formerly code-named Banias) will be unveiled Wed., March 12. It will be the TM8000's main competition.
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