“Transmeta is pretty much on course for a late 2000 IPO, having
chosen Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Deutsche Banc Alex Brown to
set it all up, according to a source “familiar with the matter”,
cited by Bloomberg.”
“By the end of the year, Transmeta should have a series of
big-name notebook PC producing customers to shout about, and
hopefully a heap of lesser known companies buying its
appliance-oriented chips.”
“IBM – and others’ – reticence depends on what alternative
power conservation and heat minimisation technology Intel,
Transmeta’s main rival, can come up with in the meantime.
Certainly, Chipzilla is working hard on its SpeedStep technology,
and Chimpzilla – aka AMD – has a similar system of its
own.“