Get ready hardware fans! The Transmeta TM8800 Efficeon processor is due for release a little later this year. The processors are manufactured by Fujitsu, which allows Transmeta to increase the performance of the chip.

Transmeta demonstrated the updated processor, likely to be named Efficeon 2, at its booth at the Fall Processor Forum and provided some technical details. The 90 nm-chip will significantly boost the currently highest clock speed of the chip (1.6 GHz) and maintain low power consumption. The thermal design power (TDP) is expected to stay below 25 Watts with 1.4 to 1.6 GHz achieving seven Watts and at 1 to 1.1 GHz only three Watts, according to chief technology officer David Ditzel.