News Focus
News Focus
icon url

weaksidehelp

03/07/02 11:41 AM

#740 RE: UKBird #739

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.


wsh

icon url

Koikaze

03/07/02 4:44 PM

#742 RE: UKBird #739

Bird, it's hardly worth effort of responding to that analyst's little insights, but, being a loquacious sort, I'll point out that the value of such analysis has been seriously tarnished. At present, in the absence of compelling support for an analyst's expressed view (in which case it is mere parroting, anyway), I'm using them as contrary indicators. Now that we're entering the period of gradually increasing shipments, its not all that surprising to have some of these guys (not dolls, you'll note) sliding out from under their rocks.

Wow ... we must be getting ready to fly.

Oh, Steak, hurry back. We need you!

Fred
icon url

stack

03/10/02 2:26 PM

#755 RE: UKBird #739

LOL, I wonder what is left to bash Transmeta...