Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Francois Boucher The Toilet of Venus painting

Francois Boucher The Toilet of Venus painting
Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting

IBM is nixing plans to use Transmeta's power-saving Crusoe chips in its new ultralight ThinkPads due out in the fourth quarter.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2 — IBM Corp. has canceled plans to use an energy-saving chip manufactured by Transmeta Corp. in its upcoming laptop computers, deflating the upstart's balloon one week before it goes public.IBM instead will continue using Intel chips — the Pentium III and Celeron — in its ultralight ThinkPads due to roll out in the fourth quarter, company spokesman Tim Blair said Wednesday. IBM said in June it would use Transmeta's low-powered Crusoe semiconductor.

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