Editing Transmeta (section)

===Crusoe===
{{Main|Transmeta Crusoe}}
[[File:Transmeta TM5600.jpg|thumb|A Transmeta CPU from a Fujitsu Lifebook P series laptop]]
''Crusoe'' was the first family of microprocessors from Transmeta, named after the literary character [[Robinson Crusoe]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

Transmeta lost much credibility and endured significant criticism due to the large discrepancies between projected performance and power consumption and the actual results. Although power consumption was somewhat better than Intel and AMD offerings, the end user experience (i.e. battery life) only showed a marginal overall improvement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=v.d. Weyden |first=Uwe |date=February 15, 2001 |title=Cast away with Crusoe |url=http://www20.tomshardware.com/mobile/20010215/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030622193009/http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20010215/index.html |archive-date=2003-06-22 |website=Tom's Hardware Guide |department=Mobile Devices}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2024|reason=I looked through all of the pages of this article, and didn't find anything that supports this claim.}} First, the ''[[Code Morphing Software]]'' (CMS) combined with cache architecture artificially inflated comparisons between benchmarks and real-world applications. This is due to the repetitive nature of benchmarks and their small footprints. The CMS software overhead may have actually been a key ''cause'' of much lower performance for many real-world applications; the simple VLIW core architecture could not compete on computationally intensive applications; and the [[Southbridge (computing)|southbridge]] interface was limited by its low bandwidth for graphics or other I/O-intensive applications. Some standard benchmarks even failed to run, throwing the claim of full x86 compatibility into doubt.<ref name="autogenerated1" />