Linus Torvalds, the charismatic creator of the Linux operating system, has indicated that his highly secretive startup venture may come out of the closet at Comdex in November.

Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen is also known to be involved with the startup, called Transmeta.

The company generally is believed to be focused on developing either a revolutionary high-speed computer chip, or software capable of improving the way chips work, or both.

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