Comments on: Silent start-up readies to take on Intel in notebooks

Montalvo has some cash and a lot of execs with deep backgrounds in the chip industry. But will it have the staying power to survive against Intel?

[drhamad]

Transmeta

The only word this article actually had to use. It used it, but it used a lot of other, unnecessary words as well.



Disclaimer: This is a joke, if you can't tell.

[DivingDancer]

True...

Yes, it was obviously a joke. But there's a surprising amount of truth in it.

If they come out with something that is on parity with the performance or power consumption of Intel's offering, they are dead before they even start. They would have to have something that is truly revolutionary, in both power and performance, or there is not a systems designer in the world that is going to pay them any attention whatsoever. "Transmeta". Nobody wants to get burned twice.

[Drpixelphd2]

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T r a n s M e t a

[Peter N. Glaskowsky]

Just for the record...

Yes, this story was a surprise to me. I even saw Michael at ISSCC
on Monday but he didn't breathe a word about it. Sneaky fellow!

Remember, there isn't a word about what Montalvo is doing on
my CNET blog: http://speedsnfeeds.com

:-)

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[Maclover1]

I could not agree more

If it came out today it would have to be some cheap, .32nm CPU that used half the power and performed just as well before any major vendor like Dell or HP to consider putting it in their systems.

I smell a mixture of hype/failure. Or they will end up making CPU's for talking stuffed animals in the end.