José Javier Zarate (jzarate@unav.es) on 1/7/04 wrote:
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>I see this on your article. I was simply showing my surprise due to the comments made by some Transmeta people.

Transmeta people have been prone to hyperbole from day
one, from Ditzel on down. You do know that the original
premise of Transmeta was that software-on-VLIW x86 chips
would offer higher performance than hard-wired x86 chips?
It was only after this pipe dream fell apart in their
hands that they switched to the low power angle. They
were adroit enough in their handling of the trade press
that this fundamental failure and subsequent product
repositioning went largely unreported and uncommented.