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Transmeta founder Dave Ditzel leaves company

Here's a bit of late 90s processor history for you: Dave Ditzel, the founder of Transmeta, has left the company.

Ditzel left the company on April 1, and is right now contemplating starting a new start-up, he told me during a coffee break at the Hot Chips conference taking place at Stanford.

A former Sun Microsystems chip designer, Ditzel shook up the chip world with Transmeta in the late 90s. The company aimed at coming out with an Intel-compatible chip that would consume less power. Ditzel was one of the first execs to warn that power consumption would become … Read more