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To: Tony Viola who wrote (134280)	5/6/2001 6:10:05 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - re: ". Notice that the two companies that are mentioned as the processor vendors are Intel and Transmeta. Isn't there another X86 vendor that wants to get into servers? I guess maybe their GHz/Watts ratio is just too low" You hit the nail on the head - did you use an AMD Hammer ?? Yes - AMD can't seem to get a low power version of anything out the door - since they went balls-to-the-wall-for-speed-at-any-power with their AthWiper design. Paul

To: Tony Viola who wrote (134280)	5/6/2001 6:12:46 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "It will be interesting to see if these startup companies like RLX are correct in going with TMTA. Will they get enough processing power out of the Transmeta chips? " My guess is they will be severely low in perfromance. First - I see no evidence that they will have any capability for 2-way or greater SMP configuration. Second, they have the handicap of doing on-the-fly x86 instruction translations - so if they have to run new code - such as dynamic XML - they may be in for some SLOOOOOOOW processing. Paul