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To: tejek who wrote (87797)	1/17/2000 10:36:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584377

Ted, re <Transmeta... their new chip is not a chip at all?> Briefly looking at their 5 granted patents, their chip may have a very sophisticated memory controller, with a huge prefetch instruction cache, to perform translation of massive code blocks. It looks like the translation somehow happens on flight with code fetching; they seem to plan to prefetch everything so deep to preload all data such that any CPU stalls will be eliminated. Hard to tell for sure from that crazy legal patent language...