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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 203.14-0.8%Jan 9 3:59 PM EST
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To: Scumbria who wrote (5689)8/19/2000 1:00:43 PM
From: that_crazy_dougRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
<< I'm sure that many of their techniques are applicable. >>

This isn't really my subject of expertise, but if I remember correctly from the last Transmeta lovefest with the media, the chip only had something like in the hundred thousands of transistors because almost all the logic was done through software and not hardware. I think that's the main reason why the chip takes such little power, and that's certainly doesn't seem like something that would be applicable to the athlon.

I have serious doubts about the performance of the transmeta chip, I'll be very impressed if their 700mhz chip stays even with a 500mhz pentium 3, and even if it does, I don't know if that will make it a big success in the industry. A whole lot of juice is taken up by the monitor, so how much extended battery life do you get from a laptop with a 0 watt chip vs a 10 watt chip? I don't know the answer, but I really doubt it's the 12 hour battery life transmeta was talking about back in january.

Anyway, I'm certainly not as euphoric about what AMD has to gain out of this as everyone else seems to be, and I think it's more likely to be a licensing deal then a fab sharing deal.
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