Transmeta JIT'd x86 into VLIW. That was right before the Power Wall became an obstacle and CPUs were already burning up. Transmeta in a sense invented low powe

Transmeta JIT'd x86 into VLIW. That was right before the Power Wall became an obstacle and CPUs were already burning up. Transmeta in a sense invented low power computing but then Intel said thank you very much; we'll take it from here. It wasn't that they didn't deliver. It's just that they were competing against Intel in the x86 space. A lot of the Transmeta team moved to nVidia and work on Denver but that's different and they got an architecture license from ARM to do that.