When I think about Transmeta I see bad journalism on the part of the IEEE Spectrum. Many read the magic show IEEE Spectrum article and incredulous believe that

When I think about Transmeta I see bad journalism on the part of the IEEE Spectrum. Many read the magic show IEEE Spectrum article and incredulous believe that the performance problems were due to low performing 16bit code but when in-fact the idea at the core was flawed. They had recreated the x86 through shadow registers, the only performance gain would be to perform serious optimization which is a job for a software compiler. When the demand was right Intel pulled off Core line. Transmeta didn't change anything.