A New CPU?

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Thanks Brent for the lead, this has got to be one of the most interesting articles to pop up in quite a while. Silicon Secrets- Playing 20 Questions with Transmeta over at pathfinder.com is a speculative article which talks about the possibilites of the purpose of Transmeta. The company which Linux creator Linus Torvalds is now employed, and has funding from all over the place including ex-Microsoft employees. The speculation right now is that they are working on a new CPU architecture, dig this quote:

Most evidence suggests Transmeta is inventing a new kind of microprocessor so fast that it'll make a Pentium III feel like an abacus soaked in Jell-O. The chip, it's rumored, is built around a wholly new architecture, supposedly fast enough to run software emulating a standard PC's Intel x86 chip faster than any x86 chip could run itself. John Dvorak, a respected columnist for PC Magazine, stated confidently in February that the chip would be a "generic processor engine" that can run code for any kind of microprocessor -- Pentium, PowerPC, SPARC, you name it -- and translate it on the fly to its own native instruction set.

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