Crusoe-Based Internet Appliance Delivered by Hitachi

Business Wire, Dec 7, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that it will immediately begin shipping its Crusoe-based Internet appliance in Japan. The company also plans to introduce the product in the U.S. as the result of demand at Comdex.

"Hitachi's new device lets you put the Internet in your hand and surf the web with the stroke of a pen," said Dave Ditzel, chief executive officer, Transmeta Corporation. "Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessor allows Hitachi to put all the performance of a PC into a handheld computer with up to seven hours of battery life."

The Hitachi FLORA-ie 55mi includes the following features:

-- Extended use: Up to seven hours of battery life.

-- Easy interface: Pen input with a user-friendly menu.

-- Connectivity: One touch buttons connect user to the web and e-mail.

-- Functionality: Mobile phone interface, wireless LAN, and a modem.

-- Reliability: Compact flash instead of a hard drive; runs mobile Linux
operating system.

-- 400MHz Crusoe microprocessor from Transmeta.

-- 800x600 SVGA TFT LCD screen.

-- 128 megabytes of ROM; 192 megabytes of RAM.

About Transmeta Corporation

Founded in 1995, Transmeta is a public company based in Santa Clara, Calif. Transmeta develops, in concert with its OEM customers, platform solutions for the mobile Internet computing market. Transmeta markets and sells the Crusoe processor solution as the engine for a new class of computers. Crusoe is built to run the large installed base of PC software applications with high performance and longer battery life. To learn more about Transmeta or Crusoe, visit our website at www.transmeta.com.