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Technology Stocks : Transmeta (TMTA)-The Monster That Could Slay Intel

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To: ComradeBrehznev who wrote (317)	11/14/2000 7:52:57 PM
From: Ron Mayer	Read Replies (1) of 421

DVD on Transmeta... ComradeBrehznev wrote: "Steve said: 'That [software dvd playback] is precisely the sort of application that would run poorly on a Transmeta, ......' check this out - on their low- end 533Mhz chip: '...InterVideo's WinDVD2000 ...special optimizations for the Crusoe ...full-frame rate DVD playback on Windows ME'" One article suggested that DVD is an ideal application for Transmeta processors, because the few instructions needed to be decoded for playing DVDs only need to be "morphed" once in the first few seconds of the movie, and for the rest of the two hour film the chip runs at peak efficiency because it's no longer spending cycles (and power) translating x86 code. Oh, and here's an article specifically talking about their ability to upgrade their code-morphing software in a way that helps DVD: zdnet.com "The new CMS [Code Morphing Software] 4.2 was demonstrated as being more efficient, allowing a TM5600 chip to run 33MHz slower than a version of the chip running CMS 4.1 on the same DVD movie. The CMS 4.2 demo also consumed about 1.3 watts of power on average, while the CMS 4.1 demo sucked up about 2.2 watts. "

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