On 02/20/2012 03:32 PM, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
What happened
to Transmeta's technology?
Didn't sell well, company dead (last I heard). Market segment taken over
by intel Atom line.
I'm very interested to learn if this or GreenArrays will take off, but I
suspect that unless they come up with use cases where this sort of
architecture is a must have, people will just keep on buying commodity
x86_64 boxes...
Their chips are primarily targeted at midrange embedded applications,
where you can power hundreds of GA chips with what a single x86_64 CPU
pulls. The XMOS chips have a similar target market. Nobody is putting
x86_64s on tiny boards embedded in vending machines talking to GSM
modems. (something I'm in the process of doing right now!)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA