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Crusoe Architecture Seminar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-the-details-on-the-chip dept.

bineronbrain wrote to us with class notes from Stanford Online's ee380 class. The guest speaker was David Ditzel, Transmeta's CEO, who goes into quite a bit of detail about the basic architecture, and teaches about how the code-morpher works and the implication it has for compiler-writers. Pretty cool stuff and you can grab the audio recording, as well as the class notes. For some reason, it's only availible in Media Player format - which means I'll never hear/see it again, of course. *sigh*

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  1. They're certainly not marketing to the public by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 4
    Transmeta has been marketing to some very particular vendors, as opposed to "people off the street."

    In particular, the fact that they've been working with IBM is pretty crucial. If they sell to IBM, and sell to Diamond, and sell to a few other OEMs, it is no problem to Transmeta that they aren't pushing product at your engineering buddies.

    Transmeta will succeed or fail based on whatever product deployments come out over the next six months, and with product lead times being what they are, the engineers that will be working on those products probably are already working hard on them.

    As much as I'd like to buy a Transmeta PC mobo/CPU combination, that's really not what they're trying to sell. They're aiming at things like laptops and portable devices, and there are likely a bunch of those in the design/implementation pipeline.

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  2. Re:Products? by arivanov · · Score: 3

    There were some references about Qantas. The taiwanese OEM that does the Dell laptops as well as a few other well known "brands". But these folks do not have a web site and it took me more than 45 min digging with google to manage to get this info.

    It is still pretty much unknown.

    The following factors are in place:
    1. Qantas always manufactures for someone else (they do not sell themselves).
    2. None of the vendors for whom Qantas manufactures seems like a likely candidate.
    3. Crusoe itselfs is manufactured by IBM who has strong appetite to very low power apps in mobile phones, PDAs and laptops.

    So from the data in hand it looks like either one of the following:

    1. Transmeta will market them themselves after being manufactured by Qantas.
    2. They will be manufactured by IBM who makes Crusoe anyway.

    This is all hypothetical anyway...

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  3. Re:Notice the building name? by mangu · · Score: 3
    Do you know who was this Leland Stanford Jr. that gave his name to the university? The son of Leland Stanford, of course, but who was Leland Stanford?

    Answer: U.S. senator from California, and one of the builders of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Became stinking rich as a railroad robber-baron and built Stanford University in his farm in Palo Alto, in 1885, as a memorial to his only child who died at the age of 15.

    Whoever is or was this Gates who donated the money to build the GCSB is as completely irrelevant as the identity of this Stanford guy. The important thing is, no matter who are Stanford and Gates, their money is now being used for education, in this one particular case for a course on this "crusoe" chip.

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