Reuters: Transmeta says Taiwan tucking into its chips

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 21, 2000

“Jim Chapman, Transmeta vice president of marketing, told a news
briefing in London that Taiwan, which makes many of the world’s
PCs, had rushed to adopt the company’s low-power Crusoe chips using
the Mobile Linux operating system.

‘The entire island of Taiwan is standardising on these mobile
devices using Mobile Linux and Crusoe,’ he said.”

“Giving details of Mobile Linux for the first time,
Transmeta Chief Executive Dave Ditzel said it had been modified
from the main system to work on devices with no hard disk at all
and could compress programs to take up just half the
space.”


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