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To: Petz who wrote (88091)	1/19/2000 2:56:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1587770

Petz, <I understand that they are now saying its for embedded applications (DVD playback is a good example). The thing is, what does it need x86 compatibility via software translation for? Why not write the DVD decoding in the native code of the Transmeta, if you're going to sell 10's of thousand of DVD players? In that case, the code morphing technology is useless.> You are absolutely right. What I was talking about is that small niche that would use Windows OS as the base platform but would have tight power requirements. (To be sure, if power is a key criterion then one may not even choose windows. The advantage of Windows is the software infrastructure.) So, this is not mainstream and that's why I don't quite see it as a threat to AMD/Intel. This, by the way assumes, they have a shippable x86 product - which they don't. Chuck