Transmeta's Crusoe chip is designed for so called mini-notebooks, which weigh three pounds or less. Transmeta said that using fewer transistors helps reduce power consumption. Crusoe maintains X86 compatibility by using a layer of software, which it calls code-morphing software. CMS, as it is called, translates X86 instructions used by the Windows operating system, among other things, into instructions Crusoe's VLIW core can understand. Transmeta also pairs Crusoe with its proprietary power-management software, called LongRun, which allows reductions in clock speed and voltage that lower power consumption.
Every microprocessor has bugs.
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