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A comment on Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU Specs. Parent comment

Re:Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU Specs by erincandescent on Monday June 13, 2022 @08:24AM (#31724479)
NVIDIA Denver was basically the Transmeta design with an ARM instead of x86 frontend.

It was very underwhelming.

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Re:Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU Specs by mhh__ on Monday June 13, 2022 @08:26AM (#31724500)
Was Denver VLIW?
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Re:Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU Specs by Symmetry on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:27PM (#31730458)
Yes, mostly. It was essentially a Transmeta Efficeon with some facilities to run ARM code natively the first time through in case it wasn't going to be re-used.
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