Newsfactor: "Whatever happened to Transmeta?"
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I remember hear the hype about these guys when they first came on the scene, but after a few months, I barely heard a whisper out of them. The technology seemed promsing...I for one really hope these guys survive. (I've always been one to root for the underdog in matches like these.)
Anyway, forgive my total technical ineptness but I'm still somewhat unclear as to what their "code morphing" scheme was all about. "running more instructions during each tick of the clock, rather than over many clock cycles..." was that the same original design philosophy behind the PowerPC and other RISC-based processors? Is this sort of like what Intel's much-ballyhooed "HyperThreading" technology does in their new P4's?
(I've had some bad luck these past few times in posting stuff before I checked to see if it had already been posted, so feel free to slap me on the wrist if it's already been discussed here.)
[ 03-06-2003: Message edited by: rampancy ]</p>
I remember hear the hype about these guys when they first came on the scene, but after a few months, I barely heard a whisper out of them. The technology seemed promsing...I for one really hope these guys survive. (I've always been one to root for the underdog in matches like these.)
Anyway, forgive my total technical ineptness but I'm still somewhat unclear as to what their "code morphing" scheme was all about. "running more instructions during each tick of the clock, rather than over many clock cycles..." was that the same original design philosophy behind the PowerPC and other RISC-based processors? Is this sort of like what Intel's much-ballyhooed "HyperThreading" technology does in their new P4's?
(I've had some bad luck these past few times in posting stuff before I checked to see if it had already been posted, so feel free to slap me on the wrist if it's already been discussed here.)
[ 03-06-2003: Message edited by: rampancy ]</p>