OT.: Does somebody know how to turn off the new automatic reloading? It reloads every 5-7 sec with Opera... Thanks.

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I like that:

http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020206_eff_philips_alert.html

I am sure the Fujitsu P is finally selling like hotcakes. On the third picture from the left you can see the "powered by Crusoe" or "Experience Crusoe" sticker... (right of Win sticker)

Although, Midori might be a bit distracting from the charts.

Birdie, I think your last design is right....

It's in the URL: Jan-Feb 2001

http://www.natick.army.mil/warrior/01/janfeb/month.htm

Bet, what's the date of those news?

The prototype Meta Pad core includes an 800MHz Transmeta (TMTA) Crusoe 5800 processor, chosen for its low-power properties, 128MB of RAM, a 10GB hard drive and Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It also includes IBM's own handwriting-recognition software and a soft keyboard, allowing users to input data with a pen or type it in on the screen. In addition, the device can run IBM's ViaVoice speech-recognition software as well as any other Windows XP- compatible application.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-830173.html

Now I.B.M. (news/quote) plans to show a concept computer, the MetaPad, at the Demo computer conference in Phoenix on Monday. It is, says Kenneth Ocheltree, an I.B.M. researcher at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., "a PC reduced to its essence, with a new architecture."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07META.html

picture: Screenshot of the Fujitsu P running external monitor:

MM, that kept the price @ $3.3 the last hour being on the ask were also on the bid side during the day. So, I think this is no big selloff, just a "walking down the price". We'll see...

Those stickers are called "Experience Crusoe" or "Experience Transmeta". Pictures of it must be somewhere on the web...

Nice pictures...

Also:

See the PaceBook at EXPONET in Vienna, Austria, the PaceBook is shown by to distributors, retail distributor WINSYS (Hall X, Booth A11) and Corporate VAR HALMA (Hall Z Stand A14). Feb. 12.-14.

See the PaceBook at BAUTEC in Berlin
Feb. 06-10, 2002 in Berlin. German VAR distributor Symplon will be exhibiting in Hall 18, Stand 18.02

Paceblade in Austria:

http://www.halma.at/austria/neu_prod/n_notebook.html

I also changed my mind, and now I think the Fujitsu P thickness is extremly cool...

Why do you think so? Low volume down day, no problem to depress the share price easily...

Interesting, two days same trading range...


I just went long again with my daytrading money at $3.3. I know it's crazy, but why not...

Benchmarking the Fujitsu P

http://www.leog.net/_fujp/00000040.htm

Detailed Benchmark Results and Comparison

From: LeoG
Date: 05 Feb 2002
Time: 15:11:28 -0500
Remote Name: 65.194.128.215

So my machine finally arrived yesterday evening and I took a day's vacation from work to play with it today ! One of the first things that I wanted to do was run detailed benchmarks to see if the negative publicity about the performance of the Transmeta TM5800 was true - Good news!, it is not true. Some reports suggest that it runs slower than half its rated 800MHz. See the detailed benchmark comparison graphs in the attachment below, which show that it runs at about as fast as an equivalent PIII 700MHz portable.

Study the data yourselves, but a couple of first observations:

* Battery versus Mains operation does not seem to make much difference.

* Do upgrade to the latest ATI graphics drivers supplied with the machine on a CD - it makes a big difference to especially 3D performance.

* Compared to the Sony Vaio Crusoe 600MHz machine, the FujP 800MHz is 30% faster in terms of raw processor performance (MFLOPS); but 50% faster overall (PassMark rating) due to faster disk, memory, graphics etc.

* The Transmeta processor seems to do extremely well in addition and subtraction (better than equivalent PIII's, but less well on multiplication and division). Here is the link to the graphs (the gif is 270K, so allow a few minutes to download fully):

ftp://www.leog.net/perfres.gif

(for reference this machine is P-2040 with 256MB RAM, running Windows XP. Benchmark software is Passmark Performance Test from http:// www.passmark.com/ .)

The Fujitsu P is definitely cultworthy. Unfortunately it is not yet available in Europe. I was also playing with the thought of getting the FIC Auqapad. It costs around $700 right now, which isn't extremly cheap but still a very nice price to get into those wireless tablets and play around with Midori. (Auqapad, I think, also has the potential to get cult status, starting out with students buying it, kind of mouth to mouth propaganda first...)

Somebody tried to install Midori on the Fujitsu P already?

About the batch: I don't think so, they will probably have all parts stocked up only for a certain minimum amount, which always could be thrown to the market (Europe, etc.) in case nobody buys. But the actual amount of parts and Ps-without-Crusoe in stock will be based on demand. Now, they sell to the US and Canada, so I think they are a bit behind with the assembly of the Fujitsu P, but not because of the missing Crusoe; because of assembly and getting it over from Japan...

(For the Aquapad, this takes 3-6 weeks, so maybe for Fujitsu 2-4 weeks if demand is higher..)

The LX-T9 updates the LX-T2 by adding a faster processor, increased HDD capacity, and integrated 802.11b (Wi-Fi) wireless networking. And, the LX-T9 is the lightest computer ever offered with an integrated DVD/CDRW drive.

The 1GHz TM5800 would be in line with Transmeta forecast to release it in 1Half of 02...

So the Fujitsu P is the first one with it in June?

Very good information, weaks. To have somebody going through the Lifebook P thread is very valuable. Thanks.

Surely, but for us is only important what the market believes and not what the truth is...

For now, Transmeta is the only stock (out of the few I monitor) I really feel good about for the future...


I could imagine a trading range between $3.25 - $3.67 until further news. How does it sound?

Does somebody know how many Ps they shipped already? Are planning to?

Carefully birdie, about the money thing. I read on other threads that cnbc was talking about accounting irregularities over at Intel yesterday. I also doubt that the Naz free fall is over.

This has nothing to do with Transmeta, but as long as we don't get the official news on volume production (which I hope to see every minute now), watch out...

Mondays IBM presentation will be good...

Go TMTA

It's on the Transmeta website now:

http://www.transmeta.com/about/press/news_headlines.html

I would make sense to me, if the official news comes out on Monday or Friday...

Here is the USAToday article, for the record:
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Pocket-size computers could make laptops passé


IBM's prototype portable computing device packs 800 megahertz and 10 gigabytes of storage in 9 ounces.

Laptop computers are so au courant. So chi-chi. Everybody who's anybody carries one, dahling, and like anything else, it can never cost too much or be too thin. Kiss-kiss.

In which case it's hard to believe future generations might look at the laptop as a ridiculous artifact, like corsets. Or carbon paper. Or those little plastic disks that snap into the middle of 45 records so they can be played on the thin post of LPs.

But an IBM scientist who looks like Kevin Bacon recently showed me a laptop stuffed into a black plastic block the size of a shirt pocket. It made me think that if this is the future, my laptop is tagged for the Smithsonian.

The block is called a MetaPad. It has been top secret. Within days, IBM will unveil it at the DEMO technology conference in Arizona. Wearable computer maker Xybernaut has been working on similar technology.

The MetaPad — still a prototype for research purposes — packs the entire guts of an 800 megahertz laptop, with 10 gigabytes of storage, into a package about 3 inches by 5 inches and less than an inch thick. One end sprouts a row of connector pins, but otherwise it's entirely closed. The device has enough computing power to run Windows XP, create 3-D graphics, handle book- size documents and do anything a laptop can do.

But it's missing a few key things, like a screen, a keyboard, a mouse and a power supply. The idea is to separate the computer and storage from the way it's used, says Kenneth Ocheltree, the scientist who looks like Kevin Bacon. Actually, since Kevin Bacon is everywhere, I've been wondering if it really was Kevin Bacon, doing a little scientific research on the side.

Anyway, you'd carry a MetaPad. At work, a docking station with a screen, keyboard and mouse would sit on your desk. You'd shove your MetaPad brick into a slot, and the screen would spring to life, just like opening a laptop and hitting the power button. Presumably, Ocheltree says, you'd have a similar docking station at home.

IBM and Xybernaut preach the same vision. Docking stations would be everywhere — hotel rooms, airport gates, college dorms, meeting rooms. Wherever you go, just take along your little brick — Xybernaut calls it a core — and it would be as effective as hauling around a laptop.

"You're never out of sync with your operating systems or application programs," says Xybernaut CEO Ed Newman. "All because they are, in fact, the very same."

There's more to the concept. The core block would be able to plug into all sorts of things. Pop it into your car to play MP3 music files or call up Yahoo maps you've saved. Airlines could put connectors at each seat. Plug in the block and use the seatback screen as a monitor. IBM is showing a touch- screen shell about the size of a book that would turn the MetaPad into a handheld computer.

Xybernaut is working on a belt pack. Plug in the block. Put on headphones that also dangle a small screen in front of your eye. And you could take your computer to the mall, up mountain trails, or on dates, which probably would not go so well.

The concept has problems. Like, how long will it take hotels to put docking stations in every room, so you know one will be there and you don't end up unpacking a computer block you can't use? What about when a storm shuts down Chicago's O'Hare airport? You'd have 100,000 travelers wielding their bricks and wrestling over docking stations. It would look like hyenas on an antelope.

Yet, there's an intriguing aspect to the concept. If the MetaPad frees computing from screens and mouses (mice? meeses?), Ocheltree points out, it might trigger phenomena that no one expected.

This has happened before. Credit cards separated money from physical currency. When banks created credit cards decades ago, you think they had e-commerce in mind? At the time, they were still giving out blenders to people who opened passbook savings accounts. Yet, credit cards allowed the whole consumer dot-com thing to happen. Amazon.com would be a wreck if it had to deal with millions of paper checks pouring in.

In the same way, freeing computing from its enclosures might pave the way for something huge.

Or not. It's hard to tell whether the concept will get far.

None of this stuff is available yet, and probably won't be for some time. There could be patent fights and wars over standards.

And along the way, companies such as Sun Microsystems will push an entirely different view of the next generation of computing. Sun believes most of our computing and storage needs will be out on the Internet, and all you'll need is a password to pull down all your data and software on any computing device. A password is even easier to carry than a plastic block.

It will be hard to convince people to give up laptops. I mean, there are lots of things to love about them. They let you work anywhere. You can write e-mail while lying on a couch with a beer balanced on your belly. (Takes practice.) They make PowerPoint so easy that middle managers across America now pop open their laptops and give 43-slide presentations to the neighborhood kids about why they should stay off their newly seeded lawns, as opposed to simply yelling.

And I don't know if a block can become a fashion accessory. Maybe IBM or Xybernaut should make a Claudia Schiffer version.

Inflammatory? Maybe I got carried away...Still nice though...
Just learning to daytrade on TMTA, if something goes wrong I just keep the shares. LOL...Good for me and good for the share price...I am pretty happy about the news flow, actually I like it in the rumor press/email distribution first, before an official statement. Gives us "small" people a chance to trade ahead of the market. Seriously, if those news finally happen, who cares if it's official or not. I have patience...this way is better...I guess most of us are far in the green and the TA look so bullish on this (considering that everything left and right tanks)...Go TMTA, Oh, and wait until brokers on Wall Street are starting to use the Metapad with Crusoe Chips....

Really like this one about IBM too:

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16192.html

Naz is spoiling our TMTA rally today, but for me it's champagne. First big US OEM, great.

It's all over:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/columns/maney.htm


About HP Openblade standart

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-830320.html

Hey, where did you got that from? Sweet.

For the invoice, LOL. I only accept payments in Transmeta shares, since this seems to be the only currency with future right now.

What is Mike doing anyway lately, so many news on Transmeta and none turned up on the Inqwell. Not too hot for them? I don't think so...

For the rally, we went to 3.85... and if the Naz wouldn't tank, we would be above $4 now. But nobody knows how many days the market selloff will be, though....

Hope everybody is doing allright. Thanks, Jane again for making me sell my tech fund at the right time.

...the article was dated Feb. 26. 2002...



We could also rally before Feb. 11. ....

So we got the first big US OEM deal! IBM
Monday Feb. 11 could be a rally day...

Very nice...

Another one:


http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,apn%253D5%2526s%253D1479%2526a%253D22124%2526app%253D3%2526ap%25...

Chips Off the Old Block

And What of Transmeta?

In the design of alternative Intel-compatible CPUs, the apple rarely falls far from the tree. The Transmeta Crusoe, on the other hand, isn't even in the same orchard.

The basic instruction sets (though not the multimedia extensions) of the modern PIII, P4, and Athlon processors are very similar to those of the ancient 386 and 486 CPUs. And although current AMD and Intel microarchitectures are quite different, both decode and process instructions using millions of hard-working, on-chip transistors. These complex internal designs permit a relatively old 32-bit processing scheme to scale up to gigahertz speeds by brute force. Why stick with this old 32-bit scheme? Because being compatible with software written for the 386 and 486 is a necessity for a modern Windows-based PC.

The Transmeta Crusoe works very differently. Its microarchitecture is nothing like that of the 386, the 486, or anything else seen in a PC with an "Intel Inside" sticker. Instead, the Crusoe uses a small, efficient 128-bit VLIW (very long instruction word) processing core with native instructions that are totally incompatible with the x86 instruction set. In many respects, this is similar to the internal RISC-like instruction sets of Pentium and Athlon processors. But the Transmeta core has far fewer transistors, because the x86 instruction translation, decode, and scheduling functions are handled off-chip by a Code Morphing software layer, which translates x86 instructions into Crusoe's internal VLIW instruction format.

During execution, the Code Morphing software actually has a few different modes of operation, as determined by real-time feedback from instruction processing. The software either interprets or translates x86 instructions into the internal format. Less frequently executed x86 instructions might only be interpreted. More frequently executed x86 instructions are translated into VLIW code, and the translated code can be optimized for speed and cached for subsequent reuse. The more often the code is executed, the more Crusoe tries to optimize it, up to a point. The Code Morphing software, which initially resides in ROM located on the processor module, is copied to system DRAM during processor initialization for faster execution.

Additionally, Crusoe monitors the processor load and is able to adjust its frequency using its LongRun technology to conserve power and reduce heat. The Crusoe is known for being a low-power CPU and is now seen in some mini-notebooks that are providing one and a half to two times the battery life of those based on competing processors, though factors such as active power management of other devices and more efficient LCD technology may also influence the results.

If this seems like a lot of extra effort just to work differently than Intel processors, well, it is. But Transmeta rightly believes the benefits of less power consumption and lower heat generation are critical to mobile processing environments. Crusoe allows the design of systems with longer battery life and without CPU cooling fans. And so far, with all of Transmeta's wizardry, Crusoe CPUs seem to be extremely compatible with standard Intel x86 processors.

Great article, I even read somewhere Intel is moving to 0.9 in volume not before 2004 ...

Still hope the TM6000 is on 0.13 first, so we get no delays...

Just now, but I feel before I can comment I have to reread it, maybe on the weekend...

Was that a great day or what? I just had to daytrade. With the gains added more shares at "$0" to my holdings, not taking out the cash from the market only shares. That's the way to play this, because it leads to higher highs and higher lows in the long run. Even went long with my daytrading money @ the close. Haven't see the ask so shy of the bid for a long time....


Oh, and Bill Gates, please don't talk about things you have no idea about. (meaning economy)

...after market close, focusing on different things now...

Yup, but maybe I should have written: "They don't HAVE to change the hardware..."
Since they are continously improving their chips, they change the hardware all the time...(and letting the code-morphing handle the changes, so the OS isn't "realizing" any of it...

Bet, I can't really explain stuff to you I don't know, but Transmeta working with the x86-64 bit sounds like they implement those instructions sooner or later into their code-morphing software. I could even imagine they don't change any hardware at all, just update the software. Might be an advantage when the market moves to 64bit. So far this is only speculation from my side. Time will tell, but I feel strongly positive about Transmeta staying up to date or being ahead of it's competitors, Intc, AMD and Via...

Great, your concerns are definitely justified. Trying hard to get you talking about it more...

Ok, but what about french wine, german cars, chinese restaurants, columbian kokain etc...?

Very well said, Birdie.

I would be really interesting to know if Chess has a first movers advantage, meaning if two players (computers) with exactly the same knowledge play against each other, does the white always win? Backgammon seems to be more luck or life like as you might want to add. Cards, !?. Checkers seem to have a first movers advantage.

Music, oh music...is the food of love.

eom

Welcome Betbigger,

interesting stuff but this article is one year old. The point to add is AMD chose not to use a chip from Transmeta to emulate the Sledgehammer, since AMD didn't want to motivate and support a dangerous competitor...