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To: Tony Viola who wrote (96729)	1/19/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Ref- < Has there ever been an emulator that ran anywhere near as fast as the real McCoy? In a word, no > Emulation always means an order of magnitude lower performance. One native X86 instruction means several instructions on the machine. PowerPC was supposed to be designed from ground up for efficient emulation, but remember had 3-4x lower performance when emulating x86. As you point ou Intel also a low power STRONG ARM processor which can easily tackle Transmeta in terms of power dissipation. I think that when Transmeta started off for this space, it looked as if this niche would be empty. Now with TIMNA and STRONG ARM, the Transmeta is in the jaws of a pincer. TIMNA will do well for potable devices, very high performance (w.r.t Transmeta), but higher power. STRONG ARM with an x86 emulator will be head on competition and with very low power to boot. Transmeta will also suffer the same problems as prior X86 manufacturers who depended upon foundries - Cyrix and NextGen. Eventually they were acquired since they could not compete with Intel. I think Transmeta may have had a good idea when it started. But is late and other competitive approaches are on the horizon, giving it a very slim window of opportunity. It does not justify its hype at all, and I shall repeat the phrase, Transmeta is a "mountain which labored over a mole hill".