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by happycube
2386 days ago
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Sort of... Transmeta was basically a VLIW chip optimized to recompile x86 code. The problem was by that point all x86 chips (even plucky little VIA/Centaur!) were recompiling x86 instructions into RISC-ish ones, and without sucking up RAM and more importantly memory bandwidth to do it. So even if the VLIW chip was on paper more powerful/efficient (and I'm not sure it was), it just couldn't keep up with doing it in hardware. |
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