The Transmeta Crusoe (VLIW with software translation) was nothing like the Pentium M which was a derivative of the P6. The Pentium M did add some cleverness in

The Transmeta Crusoe (VLIW with software translation) was nothing like the Pentium M which was a derivative of the P6. The Pentium M did add some cleverness in fusing some of its hardware translated micro-ops but that's not terribly related to what Transmeta were doing. You may be misremembering the patent lawsuit Transmeta filed against Intel, long after the Pentium M had been released and Crusoe had failed commercially, basically as an alternative monetisation strategy. Intel did end up paying them to go away, but their IP was not "rolled into" Pentium M any more than Eolas's was into Internet Explorer.