Transmeta Closing Up Shop

Ashutosh Lotlikar wrote to mention an article on the Business 2.0 site stating that chip producer Transmeta is going out of business. From the article: "The company's Crusoe family of microprocessors promised lower power consumption and heat generation, enabling the creation of laptops with longer battery life. Critics bashed the chips for being underpowered compared with Intel's latest and greatest. Transmeta struggled to find a market, and recently it sold off most of its chipmaking business for $15 million to Culturecom Holdings, a Hong Kong company better known for publishing comic books."

Transmeta

[Monkeman]

Who?

Re:Told You So!

[internetjunkiegeorge]

And the Intel deathstar approached...

Re:Told You So!

[JenovaSynthesis]

Aren't you forgetting AMD's Jem'Hadar soldiers too?

Re:Told You So!

[Anonymous Coward]

Aren't you forgetting AMD's Jem'Hadar soldiers too?

bad analogy. Weren't the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers of the mighty (code)morphin' rulers of the dominion? :-P I need to get a life.

I'm sure the vast collective brain power of /.

[kclittle]

... will find a way to blame Microsoft for this.

Re:Transmeta

[Anonymous Coward]

weren't they that shelter that took in a homeless linus torvalds in the late 90's and put him to work on a silicon valley ranch?

Re:Told You So!

[JenovaSynthesis]

Yeah. But they'd be a better analagy than say a Borg Cube since that would fit Intel more.

And you gotta love the Might Morphin' Power Changelings

Re:RTFA

[William Robinson]

Transmeta isn't going out of business just yet....so this may well be the end of Transmeta.

By any chance, Are you lawyer? :)

Re:Cyrix

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah!

"Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You may remember me from such films as, 'Man versus Nature, the Road to Victory!'."

So, don't comic books need chips too?

[ankhank]

> Culturecom Holdings, a Hong Kong company
> better known for publishing comic books

It's about time comic books started containing chips so portions can be animated and with story line updates that are downloadable, if you ask me.

I already have mine

[io333]

Fascinating. This is the first time I've pulled out my Fujitsu P-1120 [fujitsu.ca] in two months, and slashdot was the first place I went to to make sure I was connecting OK, and what do I see. Sigh. I feel bad for all the folks that will never have the opportunity to buy a P1120. All signs are that Fujitu won't be making a replacement with all the same features, namely:

1. The clearest screen I've ever seen on *anything*
2. TOUCHSCREEN!!!!
3. Size of a small hardcover book
4. Weight of a small hardcover book
5. Runs *cool*
6. Runs forever on battery power
7. No fan, silent except for the hard drive
8. Built in Wifi & Ethernet
9. Etc., etc.
10. Very nice, *useable* keyboard

Heck, I'm thinking about buying another one to have in case my current one ever breaks!

The older folks here may remember the teeny little laptop that HP came out with in the early '90s with the mouse that popped out from the side? I never bought one 'cause I figured they'd eventually come out with a faster model, and then HP just discontinued it. I always berated myself for not buying one when it was available. So when the P1000 series came out, I bought one, even though I really could have used the money for a lot of other things at the time. Two years later, I'm still convinced it's the best $1100 I've ever spent. I don't need a laptop that often, but when I *do* need one, it's the most convenient full featured, yet smallest laptop ever made.

The only downside is that it needs a bit of tweaking before it can play full screen videos, but it *can* play them, and that's all that matters. It's also well supported by Linux and has it's own forum [leog.net]

Re:RTFA

[StikyPad]

They're still working on putting out a chip based on LongRun2

They shoulda called it LongShot2

Re:would have been pointless

[Amoeba Protozoa]

HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?

Is that an example of one of the Crusoe op-code mnemonics? I've heard VLIW is complex to hand code, buy geesh!

-AP

Re:I already have mine

[Rinikusu]

And the other P1120 owners out there thank you very much for generating a ton of interest on eBay from /.'ers checking out what's available and for how much. Prices should be inflated for a week or so now. :)