What means Xputer? (it does not mean "transputer".) When we developped the anti-machine computer paradigm as the counterpart of the von Neumann computer, we have been looking for a prefix to replace "com" within the word "computer". Not yet having a good idea (do you have one?) we replaced "com" by "x" yielding "xputer". (By the way, the Transputer is a von Neumann machine, whereas the Xputer is not - it is an anti-machine.)

Why a different computing machine paradigm? It is the massive inefficiency of the von Neumann paradigm. UC Berkeley professor C. V. "RAM" Ramamoorthy coined the term "von Neumann Syndrome" (also see here) when opening the discussion after listening to a keynote speech by Prof. Reiner Hartenstein. Well known about this is "Nathan's Law" saying, that software is a gas which completely fills all available storage space. Also see here and here.

Literature

R. W. Hartenstein, M. Riedmuller, K. Schmitt, M. Weber: A Novel Asic Design Approach Based on a New Machine Paradigm; Special Issue of IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, July 1991  -  http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-040.ps
 
R. W. Hartenstein, K. Schmidt, H. Reinig, M. Weber: A Novel Compilation Technique for a Machine Paradigm Based on Field-Programmable Logic; Proc. FPL 1991, Oxford, UK - http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-039.pdf
 
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M.Weber: A Novel Paradigm of Parallel Computation and its Use to Implement Simple High Performance Hardware; InfoJapan'90- International Conference memorating the 30th Anniversary of the Computer Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 1990 - http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-031.ps
 
R. Hartenstein, A. Hirschbiel, K. Schmidt, M. Weber: A Novel Paradigm of Parallel Computation and its Use to Implement Simple High-Performance-HW; Future Generation Computer Systems 7 91/92, p. 181-198, North Holland (nvited reprint of Paper 31) - http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-042.pdf  cited by 55
 
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M. Riedmueller, K. Schmidt, M.Weber: A High Performance Machine Paradigm Based on Auto-Sequencing Data Memory; HICSS-24, Hawaii Int. Conference on System Sciences, Koloa Hawaii, 1991 - Second Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)  - http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-036.pdf
 
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M. Riedmuller, K. Schmidt, M.Weber: Automatic Synthesis of Cheap Hardware Accelerators for Signal Processing and Image Preprocessing; 12. DAGM-Symposium Mustererkennung, Oberkochen-Aalen, 1990  Best Paper and Best Presentation Award (DM 1000.--) - Speaker: Michael Weber  - http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-029.pdf

 
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M.Weber: The Machine Paradigm of Xputers and its Application to Digital Signal Processing Acceleration; 1990 Int. Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois , 1990 - http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-027.ps --  read the conference book