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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

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184 points onename | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 09:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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jpmattia ◴[12 Nov 25 15:04 UTC] No.45901114[source]▶
> so IBM handled manufacturing of its first-generation CPUs.

I'm curious: Is there a consensus on which startup companies achieved success using IBM as a fab? or if not a consensus, I'd settle for anecdotes too.

My own company (which built 40G optical transponders) used them back in that era. While the tech was first rate, the pricing was something to behold.

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1. wmf ◴[12 Nov 25 17:34 UTC] No.45903042[source]▶
Cisco and Cray used IBM fabs for multiple generations in the aughts but they weren't startups. Before the rise of TSMC it was a weird situation where fabless companies were kind of picking up extra capacity from IDMs.