> Reminds me of Transmeta Crusoe. Innovative but insufficiently performant. According to this article (circa 2003?), Crusoe was slower but more power efficient

> Reminds me of Transmeta Crusoe. Innovative but insufficiently performant. According to this article (circa 2003?), Crusoe was slower but more power efficient than Pentium-M. It suffered from a recession in Japan (affecting Crusoe-based laptops), poor execution and faulty chips leading to product delays, and being "outfoxed" by intel: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/transmeta-are-the-chips-down/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/transmeta-are-the-ch... An interesting bit is how intel was apparently ahead of TSMC at that time. It's a shame that AMD is the only x86-compatible CPU company that survived competing with intel, but we're lucky that they did. Some Transmeta alumni also went on to Nvidia.