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To: justin55 who wrote (5302)	1/17/2000 2:21:00 AM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Although I am not an engineer, from Molloy's post, I understand that Transmeta's chip is a RISC for wireless applications. Does this potentially include ASIC capabilities? According to one poster on the Yahoo/Club thread, theoretically this is possible. Hello Justin, I didn't say that - I was speculating on what Transmeta-Crusoe might be. Since it is supposed to be radically different from extant processors (i.e. RISC and CISC processors), I was drawing attention to Transputers, a relatively obscure processor developed 15 years ago by INMOS. In Current processors, RISC and CISC, instructions are executed sequentially. In Transputers, they are executed in parallel. Power consumed by a processor is directly related to it's clock speed. The faster the clock, the more power it consumes. A parallel processor consumes less power because you can do more with fewer clock ticks. Does this potentially include ASIC capabilities? An ASIC is application specific. A processor is general purpose. A processor core can be built into an ASIC. Presumably, Transmeta will supply cores, much as ARM does. w.