latest:
The members of Transmeta's six-member board are
Mr. Ditzel; Hugh Barnes, a former executive at
Compaq Computer (NYSE: CPQ); Murray Goldman,
former executive vice president of Motorola's (NYSE:
MOT) semiconductor division; Pete Thomas and Bill
Tai of IVP; and Paul McNulty of Soros. Vulcan has an
observer seat.
Transmeta hasn't been completely consumed by bits
and bytes. Its management team has been actively
striking up partnerships with some of the world's
largest semiconductor manufacturers. One of those
partners is Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), which
was an early investor in Transmeta but later sold its
stake. "Several other major corporate partners from
around world are backing us with both time and
money," says the source.
Transmeta hasn't been completely consumed by bits
and bytes. Its management team has been actively
striking up partnerships with some of the world's
largest semiconductor manufacturers. One of those
partners is Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), which
was an early investor in Transmeta but later sold its
stake. "Several other major corporate partners from
around world are backing us with both time and
money," says the source.
Dave Taylor, co-founder of game startup failure Crack Dot Com (Abuse,
Golgotha) and member of first id-software team is now working at transmeta
Transmeta struggling to make silicon sing
Boffins at Transmeta are having trouble making their x86 binary compatible VLIW chip sing,
according to sources in Silicon Valley.
The first attempt to produce a low power chip was not fruitful, forcing the designers to
re-think their strategy.
Our mole claims that after that early failure, Transmeta then refocussed on high
performance, low power x86 MPUs based on VLIW architecture. Silicon was not good.
Meanwhile, luminary Linus Torvalds is working on a highly tuned Linux kernel for whatever
CPU emerges from Transmeta, our source added.
The first offering from Transmeta will be like green jelly, our avian correspondent said -- not
bad, but not very exciting.
According to Vulture x87, while there is a large number of highly intelligent people working at
Transmeta in both the operating system and instruction set architecture areas, they do not
have a great deal of knowledge on actual silicon.
Meanwhile, while Russian company Elbrus, which received funding from Moscow last
week, may also be over-hyping its "Merced Killer", the word on the street is that it may have
well have the edge on IA-64.
According to Vulture x87, Elbrus architects were cosy with HP VLIW and (now) Transmeta
architects a decade or so back. ©
Transmeta chip to arrive by Q4
Sources said that the long-awaited Transmeta processor is set to arrive in the fourth
quarter of this year.
And details have emerged about what type of chip it will be.
The sources said there will be x.86 compatibility built into the chip, and it will also function in
Java devices.
The source said: "It will be a mobile chip sold by IBM Microelectronics and when it
launches, it will announce customers for it."
Clock speeds of the part are expected to start at over 400MHz, according to reliable
sources. ©
the world's most secret start up.
to kick it off:
News.com has released some info on a top-secret CPU that is supposed to be able to translate Intel code and run
it faster than Intel chips!. There is too much juicy info in this article to post any of it. So just check it out.
investors: Paul Allen
Transmeta Corporation
CEO: David Ditzel
Primary business: Alternative VLSI
engines for multimedia PCs
Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
Investment date: 1997
search on IBM patent server:
patents.ibm.com
* Host microprocessor with apparatus for temporarily holding target processor state 77%
* Method and apparatus for aliasing memory data in an advanced microprocessor
* Method and apparatus for correcting errors in computer systems
* Memory controller for a microprocessor for detecting a failure of speculation on the physical nature of a component
being addressed
Instead of requiring a jumble of
special-purpose ASICs, DSPs, and microcontrollers - each with
its own private memory - all functions will be performed by the
MediaProcessor. The result should be a dramatic decrease in
chip count, and potentially in price.
MediaProcessors for less than US$100 each.
plausible rumour:
It seems that with the help of some old Cyrix honchos, the company is going to make yet another x86 clone.
But this one is going to be ultra-low power and designed for modern notebooks. Transmeta sees a huge gap
in the market not being addressed by AMD or Intel.
Amiga first OEM for chip. first linux MCCs to ship 1Q 2000
Corel Is Pleased To Be Chosen By Amiga To Supply Linux© Applications
my guess so far (simple as it is):
a superior multimedia chip which can stream and manipulate audio/video (DSP) etc
in realtime with low power consumption probably also reprogrammable.
Linus is to port the whole thing for the linux community. Same move microsoft would do.
My inspection into www.transmeta.com .
secrets to be revealed:
transmeta is working heavily with the linux community (not a surprise but now its not a secret).
Transmeta is operating linux webpages.
They have 100 Mbit connection with Vaservers 700 and 100Gb Raids.
Had problems with bandwidth in the past.
Globix is providing the connection.
seem to also operate some stupid portal @ 555-1212.com
with cold fusion (maybe a cold fusion linux test. !!!!????)
specialtymd.com at 209.10.41.18 ???
this is not right... soo...
while sniffing across the globix network
I found out that there was mention of ns1.transmeta.com
but since there are usually 2 (except on my servers :-P) I tried ns2.transmeta.com
and got totally different IP: 206.184.214.14 (neosilicon.transmeta.com)
connected the best.net on a T1 instead of the 100mbit (probably co-loc POP) globix.
bingo. I hit the LAN. sniffing... scanning...
what they don't have a C-Class. Looks like they are hiding some IPs.
I see a linux host and an ssl host (smelling secrets)...
THIS IS A PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEM
There is no public access on this system. Unauthorized access is
subject to criminal or civil penalities. Unless you have been
assigned an account by an authorized representative of Transmeta
Corporation you are an unauthorized user -- disconnect immediately.
Oops. have no modem jammer and sitting at home.
will probably stop my investigation into that host. :-P
back to google.com put: ssl.transmeta.com - neosilicon.transmeta.com etc.
apparently not the only one who got this far hehehe... some slashdot plp as well.
ahhh, found this as well:
Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon.transmeta.com [10.1.1.10])
by deepthought.transmeta.com (8.8.8+spamcan/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15310;
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:35 -0800 (PST)
Received: from neosilicon.transmeta.com (IDENT:root@neosilicon.transmeta.com [206.184.214.14])
by neon.transmeta.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA28073;
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:34 -0800
Received: from linux.kernel.org (IDENT:root@linux.kernel.org [206.184.214.34])
by neosilicon.transmeta.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA12800;
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:33 -0800
Received: from wooster.sdu.se (www.convertum.se [193.45.79.209])
by linux.kernel.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA21206
for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:52:32 -0800
Received: from sdu.se (hamren@bildsystem.int.sdu.se [192.168.3.254])
by wooster.sdu.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA09475
for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:53:11 +0100
Sender: hamren@wooster.sdu.se
Message-ID: <36A688B0.13D0B418@sdu.se>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:53:52 +0100
From: Lars Hamren
Organization: Svensk Datorutveckling
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686)
X-Accept-Language: en
To: webmaster@kernel.org
Subject: Linux-2.2.DRAFT6.txt
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by deepthought.transmeta.com id RAA15310
first I thought it was bogus but then discovered there are logged web statistics for neon.transmeta.com
on the net (those hidden IPs behind the lan. no wonder). Additionally this was send from
a i686 linux 2.0.36 machine. Lets see if we can find a machine that says "Crusoe" or something to that effect :-)
linus is working mostly on network problems.
keywords to note (possibly dead ends but still have to follow them):
penguin.transmeta.com
torvalds@penguin.transmeta.com
torvalds@transmeta.com
mailhost.transmeta.com
deepthought.transmeta.com
cesium.transmeta.com
hpa@transmeta.com
hpa@cesium.transmeta.com
Linus Torvalds (employee #1 works within transmeta)
H. Peter Anvin (employee #2 works within transmeta)
Juan Cespedes (list operator might spill some info)
Henry Massalin (employee #3 works within transmeta)
David Ditzel (employee #4 works within transmeta)
korell.transmeta.com
Kelly; Edmund J. (employee #5 works within transmeta)
Wing; Malcolm John (employee #6 works within transmeta)
Klaiber; Alex (employee #7 works within transmeta)
Bedichek; Robert (employee #8 works within transmeta)
Keppel; David (employee #9 works within transmeta)
Cmelik; Robert F. (employee #10 works within transmeta)
Jauder Ho (employee #11 works within transmeta)
Andrew Morgan (morgan@transmeta.com) (employee #12 works within transmeta)
blighty.transmeta.com
Sameer D Halepete / halep ete@transmeta.com (employee #13 works within transmeta)
Tim Berger (employee #14 works within transmeta)
Jeff Uphoff (employee #19 works within transmeta)
> > Trying to build a kernel with the eepro100.c you sent to the
> > list fails under linux-2.0.35 & alan's pre-2.0.36-14 patches.
> > With :
>
> It's never going to work with 2.0.x, there's no point in even trying. I
> should have made that clear, sorry.
>
> I also had another hang on my machine once it booted, so I'm starting to
> get ready to give up on the new driver again until somebody sends me
> something that seems to work.
>
> Linus
looks like they are discussing intel pro 100 ethernet drivers with some nasa.gov fellow.
BINGO I hit on
"copybs.asm" lets see what FTP search brings up. a bit later... meanwhile...
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Copyright 1998 Transmeta Corporation - All Rights Reserved
;
; This source module contains confidential and proprietary information
; of Transmeta Corporation. It is not to be disclosed or used except
; in accordance with applicable agreements. This copyright notice does
; not evidence any actual or intended publication of such source code.
;
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------
That message implies that "copybs.asm" can't even be distributed. I
suggest clarifying it with Transmeta, in which case that copyright
notice should be changed, or remove that file from the distribution.
Thanks.
on a linux thread?????
TRANSMETA IS WORKING HEAVILY WITH LINUX tada!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not much of a surprise but its not a secret anymore).
back to copybs.asm
looks like a few hacker know whats going on behind transmeta
ftpsearch.lycos.com
one of the employees is working on the following:
- very efficient run-time code synthesis (instead of attaching a vtable
of pointers to functions, you would attach a table of code)
- adaptive scheduling based on I/O streams, so you can get
real-time-like performance on things like audio, without the
inflexibility of typical real-time methods.
- lock-free synchronization -- the kernel ran on a dual-CPU machine,
but used no blocking synchronization techniques at all in order to
avoid deadlock. Instead, it used compare-and-swap exclusively.
now the good stuff:
96 discussion with henry
Henry Massalin: Well, anyone who has a need for very high rate DSP applications yet also need a general purpose CPU. It boots Unix, and can also
do RF digital signal prosessing.
Henry Massalin: Well, it has a 128 bit datapath which can run as 2*64 - bit, 4*32 - bit, 8*16 - bit. You get the idea. Add, subtract, multiply,
dotproduct. It can permute 128 bits *any which way you want* in at most 3 cycles.
Henry Massalin: It's also 5-way multithreaded.
Henry Massalin: With a great (I think) MMU design that lets you page- protect right down to the cache line without severe performance impact.
Brown, only on the side. Mostly the music thing; I've ported many of the musci-synth things to C. *Skips and hops 'round the room*
obviously he knows his DSP multimedia. Get the hint.
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