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Transmeta is now trading as a penny stock, a long was from it's $50+ back in 2000. The question is, can there be any other outcome other than death at this point?

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2005, 06:47:49 PM »
Pity, someone should have told them about the Amiga curse before it was too late. With it being at $1 @ share, I wonder who's going to buy it out for IP rights.

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2005, 07:04:02 PM »
What was Transmeta?
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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2005, 07:05:28 PM »
With it being at $1 @ share, I wonder who's going to buy it out for IP rights.

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2005, 07:08:12 PM »
http://www.transmeta.com/

Transmeta Corporation designs, develops and sells x86-compatible software-based microprocessors. The Company's microprocessors have applications in a range of computing platforms, especially battery-operated mobile devices and applications that need high performance, low power consumption and low heat generation. Such platforms include notebook computers, ultra-personal computers (UPCs), tablet personal computers (PCs), thin clients, blade servers and embedded computers. In 2003, its top four customers were Sharp, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and one of its distributors, Uniquest, acting as the distributor of its product for the Hewlett Packard Tablet PC program. Transmeta's primary products include the Efficeon TM8000 family of microprocessors and the TM5000 family of Crusoe microprocessors.
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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2005, 07:52:21 PM »
Since their hook is low power at modest speeds, I think they are fighting a loosing battle against Via with the Eden platfrom.
 

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2005, 07:57:30 PM »
Since their hook is low power at modest speeds, I think they are fighting a loosing battle against Via with the Eden platfrom.

Well, when they started they were talking about a CPU that could be used / programmed to execute I386 or PPC or Alpha or whatever instruction set you wanted.. That's I believe was the main reason for Transmeta to be considered a partner..

(That's IIRC tho)
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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2005, 09:05:08 PM »
It's possible to come back. May not be common, but it's happened before. One of my employers was trading under a dollar (around $0.70 or so) for a while a few years ago, but they're currently just above $3.00, and between then and now they had been up just over $7.00 about a year ago.

Many expect a downturn in the chip industry this year, supposedly we're entering the an expected low point of a 30 year cycle or something. I thought the last 5 years or so was the lowpoint, but guess it's not over yet and moving back up again is nowhere in sight. Could be a bad omen for Transmeta in that current state. They might turn out lucky. Hard to say really until it's either over or they find a way to prosper again, but with Intel spending much more effort on low-poer than they did 5 years ago, Transmeta may have to largely reinvent themselves to really make a difference.
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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2005, 09:30:42 PM »
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Since their hook is low power at modest speeds, I think they are fighting a loosing battle against Via with the Eden platfrom.

Well, when they started they were talking about a CPU that could be used / programmed to execute I386 or PPC or Alpha or whatever instruction set you wanted.. That's I believe was the main reason for Transmeta to be considered a partner..

(That's IIRC tho)


Aye, "code-morphing" or some other such bollocks.  Software reprogrammable CPU that so far has been x86 only.  A 2GHz 68k clone would be nice though! :-D
 

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2005, 02:12:40 AM »
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Aye, "code-morphing" or some other such bollocks.  Software reprogrammable CPU that so far has been x86 only.  A 2GHz 68k clone would be nice though! :-D


I think that pretty much was the hopes of every Amigan on the planet in the late 90's. I'd still think there'd be a niche market for such a processor, but obviously not in their radar. :-(
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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2005, 05:02:45 AM »
Hi
AFAIK Transmeta WAS NOT Amiga Inc Partner.

Where is the official proof / statement about this partnership?

I have asked Transmeta about 68K morphing:

Their official answer: NOBODY use the obsolete 68K CPU anymore!
AMIGA is dead, long forgotten and nobody use it anymore.

About PowerPC morphing: Impossible!

I heard about "NON COMPETITOR" agreement with IBM, the creator of PowerPC and POWER CPU.

Perhaps the best option is Writable Instruction Set Computer (WISC) from Imsys or Reconfigurable Computers. But the speed of such CPU is slow.

http://www.imsys.se/documentation/manuals/tr-CjipTechref.pdf
 

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2005, 07:42:51 AM »
Ericsson was down do $0.50 in 2003. They are still alive and kicking.
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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2005, 08:30:34 AM »
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Pity, someone should have told them about the Amiga curse before it was too late. With it being at $1 @ share, I wonder who's going to buy it out for IP rights.

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I think this is more related to the VLIW curse than the amiga curse.

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I spoke to a Transmeta engineer five years ago about support of the 68k and his answer was that it was totally possible and in fact quite easy... All you have to do is licence their Code Morphing technology... These Dot Coms are so dumb :-)

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2005, 08:49:28 AM »
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Pity, someone should have told them about the Amiga curse before it was too late. With it being at $1 @ share, I wonder who's going to buy it out for IP rights.

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2005, 11:10:44 AM »
VLIW Curse

See Itanium & Itanium 2 CPU abandoned by HP, the original designer of Mercer / Itanium.

http://www.arcade-eu.info/overview/2004/itanium.html

>Transmeta Engineer - ask for License

What is the name and the title of this engineer?
Is he / she still work at Transmeta?

I HAVE asked for the license, and I got the above reply.

Perhaps Transmeta sales department did not understand their own product (?).

What is the comparison of between "code morphing" performance and the real 68K, Coldfire or PowerPC?