News.com heeft een nieuwsartikel gepost over het nieuwe patent dat Transmeta afgelopen week toegewezen heeft gekregen:
Many eyes are fixed on Transmeta. David Ditzel, formerly a top designer for Sun's UltraSparc chips, is the company's chief executive; Linus Torvalds, founder of the upstart Linux operating system, is among its employees. Last month, the buzz around the company increased when Torvalds hinted the company might debut its products at the Comdex computer trade show in November.
The patents indicate that the company is working on a combination of a chip and accompanying software that is capable of acting like an Intel chip. In fact, the chip is capable of acting like any number of other chips, Transmeta says in its patents, but the company appears to be working chiefly on speaking the "x86" language that Intel invented for its mainstream chips, Belgard said.
De wijze waarop de Transmeta processor een x86 CPU emuleert voorkomt dat Transmeta in conflict komt met Intel patenten. Dit scheelt weer licentiekosten en dat maakt het chippie goedkoper. Errug interessant allemaal. Check News.com voor de complete info.
