Reminds me of Transmeta Crusoe. Innovative but insufficiently performant.
OTOH, LISP stack-based machines were fairly successful in their day.
OTOH, LISP stack-based machines were fairly successful in their day.
According to this article (circa 2003?), Crusoe was slower but more power efficient than Pentium-M. It suffered from a recession in Japan (affecting Crusoe-based laptops), poor execution and faulty chips leading to product delays, and being "outfoxed" by intel:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/transmeta-are-the-ch...
An interesting bit is how intel was apparently ahead of TSMC at that time.
It's a shame that AMD is the only x86-compatible CPU company that survived competing with intel, but we're lucky that they did. Some Transmeta alumni also went on to Nvidia.