“A senior executive at National Semiconductor has told The
Register that the firm believes it can stay ahead of Transmeta’s
Crusoe technology and continue to make big design wins for its
Geode, x86 compliant, technology.”
“Jurgen Heldt, marketing director of National Semiconductor
Europe, said that since Geode’s launch last year, his company had
made large design wins, the most significant being Microsoft and
Ericsson, announced this week at CeBIT. Sources said that the
company is set to announce further big OEM design wins in the next
few weeks.”
“Heldt said about Transmeta: ‘We ourselves tried to emulate
code in the past, but you burn performance. We did with our 3200,
which was able to run x86 code, but it impacted performance by 40
per cent. Transmeta says its performance hit will be between
20 and 40 per cent.’ “