Transmeta Founder Talks Chips

gManZboy writes "Dave Ditzel, CTO and Founder of Transmeta (you remember Transmeta? weren't they supposed to kick some Intel booty?) sits down and speaks with Alpha and StrongARM chip designer Dan Dobberpuhl about the history of CPUs, where they're heading, and how the heck we'll keep up Moore's Law (if we can)."

Comments

What the Hell?

[Anonymous Coward]

(you remember Transmeta? weren't they supposed to kick some Intel booty?)

Uh, 1992 called. They want their slang back (and their processors, while you're at it.)

October?

[michaelhood]

In an October 1998 article, EE Times named him one of "40 forces that will shape the semiconductor industry of tomorrow."

Hmm. I wonder what day in October 1998 that was supposed to be? I don't remember any big change.

Re:Moore's Law forever - NOT

[Surt]

What, you're just going to blatantly assume that we'll not have discovered a way to perform our computations in another universe in the next 80+ years?

What are we, lazy?

Re:total energy available

[DoraLives]

Wouldn't we run out of raw materials to build them long before we ran out of energy?

I'm guessing that we'll run out of usable energy before we run out of dirt.

But I might be wrong.

Re:CPU power

[pmz]

look how much food (energy) we use up each day. It's just spread over a lot of surface area so the peak temperature isn't as high.

Er, I don't quite get it. I used up a whole can of peanut butter, and I just feel sticky. The temperature hasn't changed a bit.