I remember Transmeta being the stealth startup that was super tight lipped about what they were working on back then. The skinnable instruction set stuff was r

I remember Transmeta being the stealth startup that was super tight lipped about what they were working on back then. The skinnable instruction set stuff was really cool, but if I recall the only products that really made it to market were laptops with the x86 skin, where the coolest feature of them went largely ignored and they ended up seeing what market success they did because they had reasonable price/power/heat properties for low cost laptops.