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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: 0.207s | source
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bohrbohra ◴[12 Nov 25 10:42 UTC] No.45898593[source]▶
All I know about Transmeta is that Linus Torvalds moved over from Finland to the USA to work at this startup.

Other than that, it seems to have sunk without a trace.

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1. NelsonMinar ◴[12 Nov 25 16:15 UTC] No.45901968[source]▶
Not before becoming the worst sort of patent trolls. "in January 2009, Transmeta sold itself to Novafora, who in turn sold the patent portfolio to Intellectual Ventures". (This was long after Linus had left.)