| [News] Transmeta don't plan 68k support | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 14-Feb-2000 20:02 GMT by Christian Kemp | 33 comments
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Black Hand says he repeatedly mailed Transmeta to enquire about 68k emulation support, or the posibility to access and modifiy the morphing code. Here's what Frank Priscaro replied: Supporting the Amiga was something that we considered early on, but had to drop because all of our resources needed to be focused on the Linux and x86 markets. We have no plans at this time to support the 68K family of processors.
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| Posted by Mario Saitti on 14-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (Plain English):
> How much will this cost?
No idea;)
> These much powerful chips than can beat the pants off todays stuff? Great.
> What about these points...
> AMD and Intel have already reached the limits of the x86 architecture but
> still come out with faster and cheaper chips. There has been a steady move
Sooner or later it will not longer be commercially viable to upgrade the line. Intel and AMD suggest this is rapidly approaching. However there is no chance of these chips vanishing any time soon. Look how the 68k is still being produced in various forms.
> away from the original chip since the 386 through each generation (ie P, PII, > PIII, Athlon, Xeon, etc.), just altering a bit of code here, 64bitting
> that... The point is that I could see the x86 being around for a good time
> yet due to mass-production making it cost less and getting more reliable, it > may be 50% or 60% slower than a better alternative but it's also about a
> quarter of the price and just about ALL software works on it.
Is it going to be a quarter of the price? One thing you have to understand is that VLIW is a solution which eliminates one hell of a lot of hardware from the the equation. The costly part of VLIW production is actually the design of the software element. Once that is done things get cheaper way faster than for a RISC or CISC chip. For starters because there is a lot less chip to actually produce. Think about which model has the potential to be a quarter of the price under these conditions.
Intel has the Itanium/Merced processor for the VLIW front underway. they know this is one of the only avenues for continued domination of the Miroprocessor industry.
> Will they even try to compete in the Desktop market? There has been a popular > move since the Internet to centralised distribution systems, ie GUI based
> terminals. I know that having a personal computer offers more in the areas of > graphics, sound, local processing but for how long? This could be the advent > of things like Internet based hand held organizers, the Internet toaster (had > to be mentioned).
Perhaps and perhaps not. I guess it is way too early to tell where things are heading.
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