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Transmeta's Demise Predicted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chips-and-dips dept.

egdull writes: "According to this story, Transmeta's party is over. Between buggy first-implementations of chips, leadership shake-ups, and "being outfoxed by Intel," Transmeta is done, according to C|Net. With a low stock price, they might be a target for a takeover, with Via being the only named interested party."

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  1. Penguin? by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What?! No mention of Linus?

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  2. Its not too late by Cyno · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Transmeta still has time to open their code morphing technology and let the open source community hack everything that will be needed to allow their chip to run OSX, HPUX, IRIX and Solaris natively. If Transmeta wanted to beat any other chip maker at their own game they had a limitted chance, similar to how java had a chance at beating any other web browser. It is an abstracted idea capable of running on anything. Transmeta CPUs are an abstracted instruction set capable of running any other software if the proper bridges are built into the code morhping software. Unfortunately transmeta holds the key to their toolshed that houses the materials required to build those bridges. They have a few thousand people willing to help them for free but won't give up that key.

    Ah well, I don't care. I just hope they take their freakin IP with 'em. :)