Re:Some thoughts..... (Score 1)

Nono :) Transmeta's cpu is a VLIW cpu. That means that MANY MANY transistors that in other architectures are devoted to out of order execution and/or superscalar esecution are not 'wasted' on transmeta's cpu. So, this mean less transistors and less power consumption. All the translation stuff is done by software (with hw aid), so complexity is moved out of the hw (cpu die) and moved into software. (emulators and compilers)