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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. They were doomed from the start. by dave-fu · · Score: 1, Troll

    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?

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  2. Transmeta and Linus by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

    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 .bomb who banked upon hype and marketing way too much.

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  3. ATTN: Linus/Linux fanboys by Zico · · Score: 3, Troll

    On behalf of people with a clue everywhere, I'd just like to remind you:


    We told you so. :)