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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (96967)	1/20/2000 7:05:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 186894

Gerald, I understand you exactly. It will all depend upon the wording of the Transmeta and Intel patents. I find it hard to believe that Intel limited themselves to power supply type only. The laptop operating system already put the processor and the system into a sleep mode if the user is not using the system. So the change I proposed should have been obvious to the engineers working on Speed Step. In any case the user can also control the Speed Step manually, by clicking on icons. What I am proposing is a minor extension of that. But is all in the wording of the claims in the patents. Regards

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (96967)	1/20/2000 8:46:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 186894

Gerald ,< Transmeta patents> I have the Transmeta patents which have been issued so far: patents.ibm.com All the patents refer to their unique and innovative emulation technology. None of the patents refer to controlling the frequency of the processor depending on the workload. Thus my proposal below would not infringe the existing patents: beta.siliconinvestor.com "One innovation on the Transmeta chips is the adjustment of clock speed with the processor workload in order to extend battery life. This idea can easily be implemented on the x86 by a minor tweak to the Speed Stop technology. The operating system or some other utility can easily track the amount of CPU idle time, and adjust the CPU clock accordingly via Speed Stop. The frequency on tasks which are not CPU intensive ( word processing) could be taken down to 100-200MHz, dramatically reducing the power.We should not be surprised to see this on the market during the next year, and this will reduce the power dissipation advantage enjoyed by Transmeta." Obviously, we do not know what patents have been filed, but have not been granted. Maybe Intel should start paying me for doing their due diligence. :-) Regards Saturn 5