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Sun touts its new chip as pure MAJC, Part II

...a one 1GHz (Intel) chip," Tremblay says. MAJC uses a VLIW, or very long instruction word, architecture. VLIW, which processes multiple instructions in parallel, is... Read more

25 April, 2000 by John G.Spooner
Stream Execution on Embedded Wide-Issue Clustered VLIW Architectures

Stream Execution on Embedded Wide-Issue Clustered VLIW Architectures

Very Long Instruction Word- (VLIW-) based processors have become widely adopted as a... Read more

9 November, 2008
Intel unveils its 80-core processor

Intel unveils its 80-core processor

...be run on the research chip. Instead, the chip uses a VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, a simpler approach to computing than the x86... Read more

12 February, 2007 by Tom Krazit

Chip wars: Now it's best of three

...received a vote of no confidence, boosting the prospects of Itanium's very long instruction word (VLIW) design and putting more pressure on Sun. Compaq... Read more

26 June, 2001 by Joe Wilcox and Stephen Shankland

Famed open-source compiler gets a face lift

Richard Stallman's pet project and the heart of the free software movement - and even of some Microsoft software - gets its first major revamp for almost a decade Read more

20 June, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Transmeta mulls server move

...width of today's 128-bit processor chip. "We will launch a very long instruction word (VLIW) processor 256 bits wide next year," he predicted... Read more

8 May, 2001 by Guy Kewney

Transmeta to help AMD push into servers

...morphing software translates instructions written for Intel or AMD-based computers into Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) commands that can be understood by Transmeta's... Read more

3 January, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley and Michael Kanellos

Codemorphing: Fresh as a DAISY

...than one way to guarantee software compatibility between X86-based software and very long instruction word processors. Transmeta -- which made its codemorphing software the centrepiece... Read more

30 November, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

Transmeta promises to pump up the power

...Crusoe, by translating code from the X86 instruction set into its own very long instruction word (VLIW) language. Code Morphing Software also takes steps to... Read more

15 November, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Compaq's Transmeta diss: No big deal?

...way the Crusoe chip works, by converting X86 instructions into its own Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) language and then optimising those instructions, it does... Read more

7 November, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE

...sits between programs and the Crusoe processor's compact, low-power VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) hardware engine. The Code Morphing software translates blocks of... Read more

31 October, 2000 by Charles McLellan

AMD could Hammer Intel - analyst

...EPIC, which combines elements of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) and VLIW (very long instruction word) computing. AMD's on the other hand, is called... Read more

8 September, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries

The chip startup taking on Intel may be getting into a whole new ballgame with factories-for-hire Read more

8 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Compaq, Dell shy off Crusoe chip

Performance issues keep Compaq and Dell from embracing Transmeta's microprocessor -- for now. Compaq exec says the current Crusoe will 'disappoint' consumers Read more

29 June, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Transmeta's Crusoe: How it works

...an intentional one. Code morphing software "changes the X86 instructions into VLIW (very long instruction word) instructions", said Doug Laird, vice president of product development... Read more

20 January, 2000 by John G.Spooner

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