IEEE Spectrum: Transmeta's magic show

[ Thanks to Jeffrey L. Taylor for this link. ]

"It took Transmeta engineers $100 million, five years of secret toil, and a little magic to create fast low-power chips that turn into x86s in a microsecond."

"Transmeta Corp.'s Crusoe chips, due to ship in May or June, look nothing like Intel Corp.'s Pentium processors. In fact, they do not even have a logic gate in common. They are smaller, consume between one-third and one-30th the power (depending on the application), and implement none of the same instructions in hardware."

"But the Crusoe microprocessors can run the same software that runs on IBM PC-compatible personal computers with Pentium chips--for instance, Microsoft Windows or versions of Unix, along with their software applications."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Boardwatch: Linus Torvalds - Transmeta's Superstar(May 03, 2000)
• IT-Analysis: Chip wars heat up as Transmeta gets funding(Apr 26, 2000)
• VNU Net: Transmeta's Crusoe chip: survivor or castaway?(Mar 23, 2000)
• Upside: Transmeta keeps lid on details(Mar 01, 2000)
• TheNewOS: A Look At Transmeta Crusoe(Feb 11, 2000)
• Sharky Extreme: Transmeta Crusoe Preview At Platform 2000(Feb 03, 2000)
• DiBona.com: Transmeta writeup and pictures posted(Jan 24, 2000)
• Linux Journal: Studly Work: Talking Transmeta with Linus Torvalds(Jan 23, 2000)
• Wired: Crusoe Finding Some Homes(Jan 20, 2000)
• The Register: Transmeta's real mystery: its OS tweaking auction(Jan 20, 2000)
• The Register: Transmeta Linux flavour smoked out(Jan 20, 2000)
• PRNewswire: Transmeta Breaks the Silence, Unveils Smart Processor to Revolutionize...Computing(Jan 19, 2000)