1) Website: Why Crusoe? This is obviously a marketing thing...it is NOT a codename. And what does it mean? Well, Crusoe was stranded on an island all by himself- but he recreated his lifestyle using the materials at hand. Draw your own conclusions, but I think it is basically saying- "Don't worry about the rest of the world...with our processor you can recreate everything you need..."
2) Patents: if anybody actually read some of the patents (hobby, anyone??) that Transmeta has filed, you can read between the lines and see that they are definitely working on something that involves wrapping one processor inside another one- or "simulating" one processor on another one. But I actually think they are going one step further- instead of simulating a processor, why not have a processor that is "generic" enough that the software is conned into thinking that it IS the processor. Comments?
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Well- looking over the thread...some theories.
1) Website: Why Crusoe? This is obviously a marketing thing...it is NOT a codename. And what does it mean? Well, Crusoe was stranded on an island all by himself- but he recreated his lifestyle using the materials at hand. Draw your own conclusions, but I think it is basically saying- "Don't worry about the rest of the world...with our processor you can recreate everything you need..."
2) Patents: if anybody actually read some of the patents (hobby, anyone??) that Transmeta has filed, you can read between the lines and see that they are definitely working on something that involves wrapping one processor inside another one- or "simulating" one processor on another one. But I actually think they are going one step further- instead of simulating a processor, why not have a processor that is "generic" enough that the software is conned into thinking that it IS the processor. Comments?