Transmeta (Semiconductor) (TMTA)

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Bird, that ZDNET/IDC article is so typical of the press TMTA receives these days. Same old, same old. Poor TMTA, once a high flyer now doomed to crash (or, apparently worse, to be "marginalized").

So ultra-light laptops are a mere corporate play, huh? Better tell that to the growing group over at leog's site. Funny how the Tablet PC was not mentioned at all, but they did find room to tell us how TMTA should compete against ARM chips for Pocket PCs, a market for which their current offerings are particularly unsuited. Maybe IDC needs to listen again to B Gates at Comdex last Oct. What was that he said about Tablet PCs? O..yeah, something about the next wave in personal computing.

What will these experts tell us next year at this time, when every laptop mfg has a version of the P-2040, TMTA is the preferred chip for Tablet PCs, and TMTA is demoing a new chip for workstations and servers that runs Linux like a fiend. Well, of course, they will tell us they told us so.


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