GATEWAY TO BUY CHIPS FROM TRANSMETA.Demonstrating its continued interest in being independent of industry leaders Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., Gateway has announced that it will use a microprocessor and operating software by Transmeta Corp., in its new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. appliances, along with the Linux operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . The Transmeta products are to be incorporated into portable and desktop Web-access devices that will also be keyed to services from America Online See AOL. , Inc., and will be marketed later this year. Gateway also announced that it will continue to increase purchases from Intel rival, Advanced Micro Devices, in another indication of its proposed intention of maintaining increasing independence from Intel chips See x86 and Intel-based system. . Gateway anticipates that it will sell "in the tens of thousands" of the Internet appliances in the year 2000, and hundreds of thousands in 2001. |
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