“David Ditzel is a big thinker. In 1995, he looked out
from the balcony of his home in the Palo Alto hills, taking in all
of Silicon Valley. He had a big thought…”
“‘I was looking out over all of Silicon Valley and felt that we
could do something that would change the landscape,’ he
recalls.”
“So was born Transmeta, one of the hottest non-dot-com
startups to appear in Silicon Valley in years. The company, which
operated out of Ditzel’s living room for six months until it raised
its first round of funding in 1995, has generated a lot of
buzz…”
“‘We thought that Intel was missing an opportunity,’ Ditzel
said. ‘They were heading off into their next generation by throwing
the whole kitchen sink into the chip. They designed for the desktop
and then modified those chips for the mobile market as an
afterthought. We decided we could design a mobile processor from
the ground up.'”