Torvalds and other people known to be involved with
Transmeta, including Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen and Chief
Executive David Ditzel, have been careful not to reveal what the
company is up to.
"I think I can now tell you when I will be able to tell
you," Linus said on the sidelines of a seminar.
The combination of money from Microsoft's co-founder and
know-how from Torvalds, who still controls the core of the Linux
system, the secrecy and the Linux hype this year has nurtured
the ground for speculation.
Most commonly, the company is believed to work on either a
revolutionary high-speed computer chip or on software improving
the way chips work, or both.
The company has never issued a press release, and its Web
site www.transmeta.com just says: "This web page is not here
yet."
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