Messages in this thread | | | From | John Taylor <> | Subject | Off Topic : EE Times article | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 13:33:13 -0500 (EST) |
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I thought others may be interested in this tidbit of information I ran across on :
Hot x86 chips for '98 and beyond http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/column1/wintel19.html
The last 2 paragraphs :
The third, and potentially most interesting, effort involves Transmeta, a startup formed less than three years ago by former Sun Microsystems chip architect David Ditzel. Initial word had Transmeta at work on a PowerPC clone. Then, the buzz was that the company was designing a Java chip aimed at the nascent market for low-cost network computers. Now, it seems that Transmeta's effort is focused more on an x86 alternative that boasts either low-power, multimedia or network-computer capabilities. Or perhaps all three.
One interesting tidbit to emerge from Transmeta is the news that it has hired Linus Torvalds, the designer of the Linux operating system. Apart from Torvalds' considerable software skills, he's plugged into an influential community of Unix programmers, which could give Transmeta a big leg up in any effort to design a processor tuned to handle real-world networked applications.
John Taylor Institute of Government Computer and Network University of Georgia Operations Manager john@www.cviog.uga.edu http://www.cviog.uga.edu/
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