Talk:Transmeta Efficeon

Pentagon purchase?
Question: Saying the Pentagon 'recently' purchased notebook computers with the chip is a bad way to write the fact. When did they purchase it? Give a date and the reader can deduce if it is recent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ee79 (talk • contribs)

Answer: If the processor was first shipped in 2003, 'recently' means recently even now (2005). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.234.235.83 (talk • contribs)

Objections:
 * 1) The article didn't mention 2003; it doesn't even now.
 * 2) Two years (from 2003 to 2005) for IC industry, including CPU/RAM/etc, is too huge amount of time to ignore it: chips what cost a fortune yesterday, tomorrow will be considered hopelessly outdated and dead-end branch, incompatible with present and not-too-distant-future technologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.234.235.83 (talk • contribs)


 * It's all moot now, I removed the reference. Ehurtley 08:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Efficiency
Please add some real computation/watt efficiency type numbers, if they can be found... 69.87.202.166 22:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Native instruction set
Can software be compiled to the chip's native instruction set? That is, can it be used without the x86 compatibility layer? This should be made clear. --Tene (talk) 07:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)