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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by samstave on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:10AM (#33418715)
where the heck is Transmeta ??? intel was so afraid of them in 1997

Obv AMD was the true and once... but there was a lot of Transmeta-fear back then too

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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by jecel on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:26PM (#33440626)
Transmeta announced their first product, the Crusoe processor, in 2000. Before then they were highly secretive and nobody knew what area they would compete in.

Intel was indeed worried about the laptop market when the Crusoe came out, but quickly adopted the voltage and frequency scaling into their own processors negating some of Transmeta's key technical advantages.

Meanwhile, IBM changed directions as a third party fab (they dropped bulk CMOS to focus on SiliconOnInsulator) leaving Transmeta without a product to sell until they could find a new fab and design their next generation product for that.

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