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To: Scumbria who wrote (124907)	9/27/2000 10:58:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575427

Transmeta claims five-year chip lead zdnet.com Scumbria, as local microprocessor design authority and sometimes AMD historian and Transmeta advocate, I thought I'd send this one your way. TOKYO -- U.S. microprocessor startup Transmeta Corp. believes its technology is at least five years ahead of industry giants Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., its chief executive said on Tuesday. The once highly secretive Transmeta burst into the limelight in January when it unveiled its Crusoe chip, which uses software to perform many functions previously done by hardware, enabling lighter PC notebooks with much longer battery life. For them to catch up, they would also need a software-based approach. That means they would have to start from scratch and from my 20 years of experience, it would take at least five years to get a new microprocessor out the door," David Ditzel said in an interview. Two thoughts: 1) K7/Athlon didn't take 5 years, did it? 2) These Transmeta guys are pretty cocky and pretty good at getting press. I don't know what kind of deal AMD could do with them at current share prices. They mention TMSC (booked solid for 2 years?) as an alternative foundry here. Cheers, Dan.