I appeal to all you technical aficionados for opinions on the degree of threat to AMD and INTC embedded in this statement:
Transmeta is believed to be developing a processor to compete with Intel.
dailynews.yahoo.com
Finally, the most celebrated programmer in the open source community, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish programmer who created the core of Linux, the Linux kernel, will give a keynote address Monday night, in another huge validation of Linux.
It is rumored that Torvalds may take the wraps off his current employer, Transmeta Corp., one of the most secretive start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Transmeta is believed to be developing a processor to compete with Intel.
Transmeta is headed up by David Ditzel, a former Sun chip designer, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is one of its investors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, founded about four years ago, is so secretive its Web site simply says "This web page is not here yet!...but it is Y2K compliant."
Thanks very much,
Ron
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