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To: Saturn V who wrote (96731)	1/19/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn V, Re: 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". OK, what's next? 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. I know emulation products are sloooowwww, having used some application software ones in the past. They last about as long as it takes to delete them off the hard drive. I can't believe these guys could be coming out with something an order of magnitude lower in performance. That'd be like going back to a Pentium 90 or something. I'm sure there's more to come. Tony

To: Saturn V who wrote (96731)	1/19/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy,>>>Transmeta is a "mountain which labored over a mole hill".<<< Abbey has not come out with a good phrase since her analogy of our economy to a super tanker. You have come out with some terrific phrases in only the last few months. Terrific analysis of Transmeta's threat to Intel. Mary

To: Saturn V who wrote (96731)	1/19/2000 4:26:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn - <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.> Oh yeah. Intel does have these up their sleeve. I don't know very much about StrongARM. Is there an x86 emulator currently for StrongARM? If there isn't, would it be a difficult thing to do? PB