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linus worked at a 'failed' intel competitor "transmeta", which was trying to make low powered chips. intel/amd are tough competitors. https://en.wikipedia.or
by acomjean 8y ago
linus worked at a 'failed' intel competitor "transmeta", which was trying to make low powered chips. intel/amd are tough competitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
- rbanffy 8y agoThey still aimed to run x86 binary code through an emulator layer on a VLIW CPU.
- pickle-wizard 8y agoI remember the Transmeta processor, they were neat. I only ever saw 1 Transmeta PC in the wild. IIRC it was a Sony sub notebook. Of course it was running in x86 mode and running Windows. I got to mess with it a bit and for the time it was a pretty good machine.
- mempko 8y agoI saw an insane amount of Transmeta PCs in Japan circa 2005 during the "netbook era" running Windows. It was quite a surprise.