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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

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180 points onename | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 09:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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rsynnott ◴[12 Nov 25 11:22 UTC] No.45898820[source]▶
> But they were still a technology company, and if their plans had gone well, they would have sold their product to dotcoms

I'm not sure that that's really correct; they were very desktop-oriented.

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drob518 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:01 UTC] No.45899110[source]▶
Well, they ended up being mobile-oriented, but even that didn’t work. They were definitely not server-oriented and they really couldn’t compete at desktop. Honestly, while the tech was interesting, it wasn’t really solving a problem that anyone was struggling with.
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1. organsnyder ◴[12 Nov 25 14:22 UTC] No.45900562[source]▶
> it wasn’t really solving a problem that anyone was struggling with

They did push the envelope on efficiency. My Crusoe-equipped laptop could go six hours on the stock battery (12+ on the extended batteries) back when most laptops struggled to get three.