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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (88086)	1/19/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) of 1578111

Cirruslvr, Re:"transmeta" Well I sat through the 2hr BS session. My thoughts: They waffled on the benchmarks - very obviously - CLOCK SPEED is very high yet effective throughput is pretty low. Very good for apps like DVD playback where you have repetitive stuff - due to the trandslation cache. They don't support 3dNow or SSE but support MMX - ho hum. Chips priced at $200-350 seems like a huge price for effectively 60% of a PIII 500 mobile. On their smaller chip that looks interesting. But I would expect folks like National with Geode to be likely competitors. And National will run windows today while their chip runs mobile linux in rom. Overall BRILLIANT marketing but not much meat. Technically the code morphing and power management was very elegant. regards, Kash.

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