Back to the articleI thought... #
Posted Tuesday 18th November 2008 10:50 GMT
the reason they were famous was that Linus Torvalds was working for them at the start...
Chips are down for Transmeta
After remembering the hype surrounding their launch... #
Posted Tuesday 18th November 2008 10:50 GMT
Does this mean their chips weren't a secret plot to release technology captured at Roswell to the general public and kick off the 21st century after all?
Mispossessed #
Posted Tuesday 18th November 2008 10:52 GMT
"Chip's are down" - do I detect an apostrophe infraction - and after all we said on that subject the other week - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/apostrophe_abuse/ !!
...but why did it fail? #
Posted Tuesday 18th November 2008 11:03 GMT
"The firm was a poster child for the first bubble - raising millions in venture capital and getting acres of media coverage - on the strength of a promised new market which took rather longer to arrive than predicted."
Well, Transmeta made a stab at the low-power CPU market but lost. It's called capitalism, no harm done. On the other hand, it's still worth millions, so it's unlike a classical bubble monster, really.
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