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To: Road Walker who wrote (96530)	1/17/2000 12:39:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 186894

The sources, which include industry analysts, said that the Crusoe chip will initially be aimed at notebook computers and Internet appliances, but it can ultimately be used in cell phones and other devices. Translation: Transmeta has developed a low power, low performance chip which missed it's initial target and is scrambling to justify it's existence in the embedded microprocessor space. Scumbria

To: Road Walker who wrote (96530)	1/17/2000 2:22:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John - Re: "Last week, the Financial Times reported that Transmeta has signed a pact with International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) for its chips. " This was the KISS OF DEATH for Cyrix. IBM allowed them access only to older process technology - not the leading edge stuff. Paul

To: Road Walker who wrote (96530)	1/17/2000 2:42:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

Gwennap said he believes Torvalds was hired by Ditzel because he is a renowned programr and that his expertise was necessary to work on Transmeta's complex product designs, which place much of the chip's functions in the software instead of the hardware. But Linux is believed to be an important part of the strategy. ... The company has received two U.S. patents in the past year, one for a ''code-morphing' technique, which basically lets the processor act like a chameleon, translating the instructions from any kind of chip architecture (such as Intel's x86 instructions) into Crusoe chip instructions. It sounds to me like they have some sort of programmable firmware/microcode so that they're doing object code translation partly at the hardware level. Better than an emulator but not as good as real thing, of course. What's the real target for this thing? They seem to be targeting it at low-power devices, so maybe they're aiming at the laptop and handheld market.