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This seems like the exact same story as Magic Leap among others.

• RantyDave 6y ago
  No, not at all. Transmeta got a lot closer to nailing a much bigger market. They had actual products for a start. The problem was the underlying architecture was VLIW. Lots of people including Intel and Nvidia have tried to make it work and have been squarely bitten in the arse.
  • FullyFunctional 6y ago
    And the failure of Transmeta was a business failure far more than a technical one. Had we not switched from working chip produced on IBM's fab, we would have had chips to give our customers who would have kept giving us money to invest in improved products ... EDIT: wording & typos
  • SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
    Now Russians (more precisely, Russian Government) are trying to use VLIW. Elbrus CPU seems to be an interesting device, able to emulate x86 at Core Duo speeds.
    • ruslan 6y ago
      FYI. МЦСТ, a developer of the E2K CPUs has recently published an "Effective Programming of Elbrus CPUs" guide which describes its ISA. The document is in Russian. Link: http://www.mcst.ru/files/5ed39a/dd0cd8/50506b/000000/elbrus_prog_2020-05-30.pdf http://www.mcst.ru/files/5ed39a/dd0cd8/50506b/000000/elbrus_...
  • gip 6y ago
    Intel was later more successful with VLIW. They bought Silicon Hive a company in NL that built VLIW for image processing. I had left by then but my understanding is that they were able to build actual products with it.
    • selectodude 6y ago
      I think they were referring to Itanium.