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Regarding the “too good to be true” part, I wouldn't take them seriously based on what they have published (and more crucially what they have withheld, like an
by fweimer 4y ago
Regarding the “too good to be true” part, I wouldn't take them seriously based on what they have published (and more crucially what they have withheld, like an ISA manual or sources of a GNU toolchain port), except they managed to hire a very senior GCC developer. I trust that he did his due diligence before joining them, so I must assume what they are building is real.
Did they make any performance claims about the cross-ISA support? It might just be QEMU port with qemu-user and TCG.
- masklinn 4y ago> except they managed to hire a very senior GCC developer. I trust that he did his due diligence before joining them, so I must assume what they are building is real. "Lots of money" and interesting challenge can be the due diligence, it's not like the product has to be realistic to get paid (it helps in the long run, but in the short run VC money pays the bills). Hell, they might even believe in the product. Linus spent 6 years at Transmeta.
- pinewurst 4y agoI think there's a difference though between Transmeta not making a competitive product from their story and Tachyum seeming an out-and-out scam.
- masklinn 4y ago> Tachyum seeming an out-and-out scam. But if you actually look at the thing, it does not actually seem like an out-and-out scam, a 5.7GHz VLIW design is not even remotely in the realm of the impossible. And rosy promises which end up crashing and burning are exactly what transmeta achieved.
- foobiekr 4y agoTransmeta managed to hire Linus Torvalds. Hiring is mostly - not entirely - about money.