Editing Transmeta (section)

==Management and staff==
===Corporate governance===
Transmeta had a succession of 6 different chief executive officers who ran the company over its lifetime.

{| class="wikitable"
! CEO
! Years of service
|-
| David Ditzel
| 1995–2001
|-
| Mark Allen
| 2001–2001
|-
| style=white-space:nowrap | Murray Goldman<br/>w/ Hugh Barnes as [[Chief operating officer|COO]]
| 2001–2002
|-
| Matt R. Perry
| 2002–2005
|-
| Art Swift
| 2005–2007
|-
| Lester Crudele
| 2007–2009
|}

===Notable employees===
Among its crew of technologists, Transmeta employed some of the industry's more public figures including Linux founder [[Linus Torvalds]], Linux kernel developer [[Hans Peter Anvin]],
[[Yacc]] author [[Stephen C. Johnson]],<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/transmeta-revs-up-own-version-of-linux/
 |title=Transmeta revs up own version of Linux
 |last=Shankland
 |first=Stephen
 |date=2002-01-02
 |website=www.cnet.com
 |access-date=2020-11-10
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110210055/https://www.cnet.com/news/transmeta-revs-up-own-version-of-linux/
 |archive-date=2020-11-10
 |quote=The method works for all types of computing tasks, said Steve Johnson, leader of the software effort at Transmeta.
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/geek-of-the-week/stephen-curtis-johnson-geek-of-the-week/
 |title=Stephen Curtis Johnson: Geek of the Week
 |last=Morris
 |first=Richard
 |date=2009-10-01
 |website=www.red-gate.com
 |access-date=2020-11-10
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030024552/https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/geek-of-the-week/stephen-curtis-johnson-geek-of-the-week/
 |archive-date=2020-10-30}}</ref>
and game developer [[Dave D. Taylor]]. Partially because of the presence of these figures, the industry was constantly abuzz with rumors and '[[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]]' resulting in excellent [[Public relations|press relations]].