Kind've post-Soviet but there was a link between Elbrus (Boris Babayan) and Transmeta. https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/10/24/russian_merced_killer_firm_conf

Kind've post-Soviet but there was a link between Elbrus (Boris Babayan) and Transmeta. https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/10/24/russian_merced_killer_firm_confirms/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/10/24/russian_merced_kill... I believe that Babayan was the originator of the Code Morphing idea. However, Ditzel had also done something earlier with CRISP at Bell Labs where complex instructions were translated/decoded into horizontal microcode instructions and cached, the precursor to the x86 μ-store. Translated != Compiled. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400837/the-software-chip/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400837/the-software-chip/ Babayan went on to work for Intel where he is now an Intel Fellow. https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/boris-a-babayan/ https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/boris-a-babayan/