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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. Re:Smugness was their demise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hey! Sounds just like Apple!

  2. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Saw this on zdnet...

    The cat is out of the bag. Linus Torvalds was recently seen living under a freeway overpass. When asked about his current living conditions, he remarked "well, Transmeta had to lay me off, and they kept it quiet because they didn't want to enrage their only customers -- Linux geeks." What will this mean for the God of Linux? All the Linux companies are showing cash shortfalls, and none appear to be hiring. A spokesman for Red Hat commented, "We're just tapped out of money. We wish Linus well, but what can we say? We got what we wanted out of him, and know he's going to have to get a real job like the rest of us will have to sooner than later."

    Linus appears to be taking it in stride. "Well, I've always said that I wasn't interested in making money off Linux. And heck, this overpass is not so bad. It's still better than Finland."

    Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda of Slashdot, often thought of a spiritual leader of Linux, commented that "Hey, he's welcome to crash at my house, except that my house is due to be repo'ed any day know due to the VA Linux stock price crash."

    1. Re:In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Hey! I was wondering who that was with the penguin bag begging for money outside of my bank! I should have gotten his autograph.

  3. Re:Just Goes to Show by gmhowell · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he'll go to VA Linux....

    Oops. Wait a minute...

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  4. I checked the website... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It reads: "This Web page is not gone yet!". :-)

  5. Re:Just Goes to Show by sheldon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not VA?

    Look at it from this perspective... He can get in on the ground floor with REALLY CHEAP stock options!

    :-)

  6. Re:not too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    At least Linus had the good sense not to shoot his mouth off like ESR about being rich.

    Anyone recall ESR's "Surprised by Wealth" cock-a-doodle-do? What a flaming jackass. He needs to come out with a follow-up: Surprised by Unemployment.

  7. On what would happen if Trasnmeta was taken over by ekmo · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Right out of the blocks, I would suspect that some of the employees would walk out. Most of the smart guys have money, and they are motivated by other things," said Brian Alger, an analyst at Pacific Growth Equities. "These are quirky, quirky people."

    Do any specific quirky smart guys not motivated by money come to mind?
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  8. Re:Transmeta == Apple ? by fifthchild · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could say it's comparing apples to oranges.

    Or even lemons.

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