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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Amy J who wrote (87622)1/17/2000 1:59:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) of 1572377
 
Amy & thread, a potential weakness of Transmeta design is the unpredictability of its execution speed. For embedded applications, you may want a guarantee that a given task can be performed within a certain deadline.

The Transmeta thingy first has to translate code into its native instruction set before running it. Therefore, the first time any segment of code is executed, or any time the translation is not still in the Translation Cache, the code will run much slower. We'll have to wait for the disclosure to see what Transmeta may have done to avoid this weakness.

As for it using only one watt, IDT makes MIPS clones that use less than a watt of power and I believe versions of Intel's Strongarm are in that ballpark.

I hope the Transmeta disclosure is early on Wednesday so as not to steal the thunder from AMD's earnings & conference call.

Petz
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