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Transmeta's Demise Predicted
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."
Intel is an investor in CNET...
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
Someone should have told them that when they were aiming for the (non-existant) "sub-notebook" market, their foot was directly in the line of their shot. It doesn't matter how sexy your technology is: if you don't give people what they want or do a job better than the other guy, you'll be out on your ass. CPUs don't whore enough power (compared to, say... a display?) that a low-power CPU makes that much of a difference. That and the fact that no one really wanted a "sub-notebook" as notebooks approached their form factor and the smaller Palm Pilots/Pocket PCs are just, well... sexier and more useful because of their increased portability.
Cool-running CPUs might have made sense for renderfarms and server rooms, but IT departments have already invested in cooling systems, and will the savings for building new hypothetically cooling-free server rooms offset the extra servers you have to purchase because of the Transmeta's sluggish performance?
Easy does it!
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The greatest intellectual property Transmeta had was/is Linus. Transmeta wouldn't have had nearly the press that it has had, without Linus. Because most of what Transmeta did was bank on Linus' name for Marketing hype and brand identification, it was doomed from the start.
.bomb who banked upon hype and marketing way too much.
When I first saw reports of Transmeta, they were "hush hush" about what they were developing, but not so about WHO they were hiring. After their first product announcement, I asked myself this rhetorical question, "so what?" I never answered that question.
Transmeta will be just another
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Transmeta is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered faggot community when last month IDC confirmed that The Crusoe Chip accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that the Crusoe Chip has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Transmeta is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [transmeta.com] in the recent benchmark comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict the Crusoe Chip's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Crusoe Chip faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Crusoe Chip because Transmeta is dying. Things are looking very bad for Transmeta. As many of us are already aware, The Crusoe Chip continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Transmeta is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Transmeta leader Linus states that there are 7000 users of Crusoe. How many users of Crusoe are there? Let's see. The number of intel versus crusoe posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 crusoe users. Crusoe posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of AMD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of crusoe. A recent article put crusoe at about 80 percent of the The Crusoe Chip market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Crusoe users. This is consistent with the number of crusoe Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of everyone, abysmal sales and so on, Transmeta went out of business and was taken over by microsoft who sell a troubled OS. Now Transmeta is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that The Crusoe Chip has steadily declined in market share. The Crusoe Chip is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Crusoe Chip is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. The Crusoe Chip continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Crusoe Chip is dead.
Transmeta is dying
On behalf of people with a clue everywhere, I'd just like to remind you:
We told you so. :)
Anyone who associates with Linus gets it up the shitter.