To: Craig Freeman who wrote (12061 ) 6/18/2000 11:06:00 PM From: Ausdauer Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Transmeta featured in Wired Magazine. transmeta.com Here are some excerpted pieces from the article by Claire Tristram in the July issue of Wired... Ditzel's a brilliant engineer, but I wonder if he's incapable of conveying the practical advantages of his technology to prospective customers. And then I see a news report of AOL CEO Steve Case at Internet World, showing the same webpad that Ditzel demonstarted at the Transmeta launch. Case is outlining AOL's co-marketing agreement with Gateway to push these Linux-based products, and he's mouthing Ditzel's vision."About a year ago, when we were ready to come out of the closet, so to speak, we wanted a demonstration that showed us to be more than an Intel clone. We were trying to demonstrate a product that wasn't a PC or a laptop and that would use the Transmeta CPU; and it would have to run Linux, naturally because we would needed to demonstrate something without a hard disk that could access the Internet. That's where the web pad came in." Although Crusoe, at 400 MHz, is a power hog compared with the dominant cell phone chip, manufactured by ARM, Ditzel suggested at the launch that any battery-operated product with a browser is ripe for a Crusoe chip, whatever form those devices may take.
