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

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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (84)	1/22/2000 5:39:00 PM
From: Jonathan Edwards	of 421

First, Crusoe will enable Transmeta to "clone" any specialty microprocessor in software simply by providing an appropriately versioned code morphing engine To reiterate some of my previous posts, I simply don't believe this is true. TransMeta will be able to run applications written for any specialty microprocessor, perhaps, but they will not be able to mimic anything besides the X86 sufficiently closely that an existing design (or an existing design plus small tweaks) could simply replace the chip it was designed for with a TMxxxx. To do so would require changes to the TM hardware (to make it mimic the hardware it's replacing) or some amount of glue around an existing TM to disguise it appropriately. The latter is a particularly inelegant way of doing things, and if I were to pick one word to describe TM's technical accomplishments it would be "elegant"...

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