[ Thanks to John F.
Gibson for this link. ]
“Transmeta, a top-secret Silicon Valley start-up, apparently
hopes to offer Intel-compatible chips while sidestepping legal
landmines, a new patent reveals.”
“A patent awarded to the Silicon Valley chip design firm
yesterday, along with another patent issued in 1998, show that
Transmeta is working on a new chip that can emulate an Intel
chip.”
“But the newest patent indicates that Transmeta is taking a very
different tack than what other Intel chip cloners such as AMD and
Cyrix have used, according to independent patent consultant Richard
Belgard.”