Comment by CalChris

A 700 MHz Crusoe TM5400 delivered roughly the same performance as a 500 MHz Pentium III on SPEC benchmarks.

Transmeta as a startup (the pitch to early investors) went after high performance and maybe that could be construed as DC could beat OOO. But the released product pivoted (like that hasn't happened before) to low power, hence the name Efficeon. Its killer app was playing a DVD on a laptop on a cross country flight without running out of battery and without frying your own laptop. They basically invented that market which then gave them the great good pleasure of competing with Intel.

It was a heroic doomed effort. Brought to its attention, Intel quickly adapted to that market. Game, set, match. Ditzel became a VP at Intel.