Transmeta , once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD
in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora.
The company’s most famous employee, Linux inventor
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 16:45
...s a company called Orion Multisystems, which tried to establish an overweight $100,000 desktop tower with 96 Transmeta Efficeon processors as a potent workstation, but failed. Nvidia tried to sell a $...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 00:25
Transmeta , former employer of Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, is on the
block. According to media reports, the company has hired an adviser to
find a buyer. Chicago (IL) – Transmeta , former em
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 22:52
...ghly competitive and any established company in this market isn’t aiming for second place, especially Intel. Transmeta felt it, AMD felt it and ARM may have to rethink its business approach as well. I...
Friday, September 19, 2008 10:11
It appears that Transmeta has found a successful business model: The
company has added Nvidia to its group of Longrun and Longrun 2
licensees suggesting that it is not going to disappear anyt
Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:37
...ailable. The organization, however, lists AMD’s 6 watt 1 GHz Geode processor with a score of 30.2 as well as Transmeta ’s discontinued 1 GHz Efficeon CPU with a score of 137. Silverthorn...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
Thanks to a $150 million payment, resulting from a lawsuit against Intel, Transmeta has received additional time to grow its licensing business. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were just $126
Monday, March 17, 2008 17:27
... bit of luck - Intel’s design lab in Israel. The Haifa team around Mooly Eden was busy trying to beat Transmeta in the super low power yet plenty powerful CPU game in the early years of this de...
Friday, January 25, 2008 10:47
Transmeta is taking additional to secure financing for the remainder of this year. The company today announced that it will be offering to sell securities to selected institutional investors for an a
Friday, September 21, 2007 11:09
...es its technology, Tilera is actually manufacturing the Tile64, which is reminiscent of the rise and fall of Transmeta . If you have been around in this industry for some time, then you may remember ...
Monday, August 20, 2007 00:00
Transmeta announced a reverse stock split in order to lift its stock above the critical $1 mark. According to a press release the company's board of directors approved a reverse split of Transmeta
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 23:07
... with virtualization extensions to operate. The software solution will work on all VIA, AMD, Intel and even Transmeta CPUs. Right now it can be somewhat slower, but it depends on the workload being...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:50
Transmeta today reported revenues of $171,000 and a net loss of $11.5 million for the second quarter of this year. The revenue included $146,000 of service revenue and $25,000 of end-of-life product r
Monday, August 06, 2007 18:43
AMD’s recent $7.5 million investment has made the company the largest shareholder in Transmeta . According to a SEC filing released today, AMD has received 1 million shares of preferred Series B sto
Friday, July 13, 2007 15:07
...s as Freescale (embedded), Hynix (memory), Nvidia (video), Toshiba, Broadcom (communications), AMD, VIA, and Transmeta (x86), just to name a few. There's no doubt that AMD is and Intel's clos...
Thursday, July 12, 2007 18:35
Transmeta gets some financial breathing room thanks to a $7.5 million investment from AMD, which boosted the company’s stock by more than 30% today. Santa Clara (CA) – Transmeta gets som
Friday, July 06, 2007 14:44
Transmeta has gone through a painful business model transition, but just in time before the company is virtually running out of cash, it can expect to receive cash from licensing its LongRun2 technol
Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:19
...re expensive.) They have had this small form factor desktop and laptop space almost to themselves ever since Transmeta excited the segment. This was somewhat eclipsed by Intel’s $200 laptop ann...
Friday, June 08, 2007 11:34
...highly competitive market that is controlled by Intel, IBM and AMD. This scenario is somewhat reminiscent of Transmeta , which tried to revolutionize the microprocessor market with its power-saving &qu...
Monday, February 05, 2007 21:02
...y black skin of the 02? It starts with 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GHz Via C7-M processors (an upgrade from the 01's Transmeta Crusoe/Efficeon CPUs), 30 GB and 60 GB hard drives, 512 MB and 1 GB of memory as ...
Monday, January 08, 2007 16:43
...her trivial to predict that the new model 02 will be providing significantly more performance than the 1 GHz Transmeta Crusoe, which has been used since the model 01's introduction and has been phased...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 00:10
...h supercomputer power. Back then Orion promised to bring to market a 96-processor desktop computer that used Transmeta 's now defunct Efficeon processors and promised a sustained performance of about 1...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 18:31
According to InfoWorld, Transmeta is charging Intel with violating 10 of its patents covering processor design and power efficiency techniques. According to InfoWorld, Transmeta is charging In
Friday, October 13, 2006 20:10
...introduced its first power-saving technology - Speedstep - back in January 2000, in fact just one day before Transmeta unveiled its Crusoe processor. There are people who claim that Intel may never ha...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 06:13
Transmeta exceeded its previously provided guidance for its second quarter with revenues of $9.3 million and a net loss of about $8.5 million. Transmeta exceeded its previously provided guidance for
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 21:45
...telligencer reporter Todd Bishop cites an April 2005 agreement between Microsoft and low-power chip producer Transmeta - the text of which is available publicly - as evidence that Microsoft is indeed ...
Friday, July 07, 2006 18:08
Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduc
Monday, June 26, 2006 15:00
Emerging markets are considered the next big opportunity for IT companies: One idea to connect more people to the Internet is the $100 laptop. Microsoft never warmed up to that concept, claiming that
Monday, May 22, 2006 15:58
Transmeta is making significant steps to become a profitable company: After the transition from a processor manufacturer to an IP company that licenses processor and chip technologies, the company ha
Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:24
In a recent guest article for the CERN courier, Google vice president of operations Urs Hoelzle provided some insight of Google's challenges and strategy to limit overall power consumption of t
Friday, November 04, 2005 21:31
S3 today announced a new family of graphics processors that may offer an alternative for graphics enthusiasts on a budget. The chips will appear on sub-$100 graphics cards and promise to offer
Thursday, November 03, 2005 18:28
S3 announced that Fujitsu will be manufacturing the firm's new range of low-power graphics processors.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005 16:40
If you are tired with carrying around your six-pound plus laptop, Flybook may have something for you - a 2.6 pound laptop that can be turned into a tablet PC. We talked to Steve Tang, President
Friday, October 28, 2005 17:36
P.A. Semi is a new player in the processor market that competes for a portion of the cut-throat CPU market. The company hopes to carve out its place by avoiding direct confrontation with Intel:
Monday, October 24, 2005 16:58
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of a toxic silicon bonfire, Transmeta has turned in a profit.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 17:19
Looks like Transmeta 's massive job cuts, Sony's commitment to pay for more than half of Transmeta 's staff and the strategy to refocus the company from processor manufacturing into IP license ar
Friday, July 08, 2005 21:24
Transmeta raised its cash guidance for the first fiscal quarter ended March 31 from $38 to $42 million.
Monday, April 18, 2005 17:47
Transmeta makes for an interesting Silicon Valley case study.
Monday, April 04, 2005 17:03
Transmeta announced a net loss of $28.1 million on net revenues of $11.2 million for its fourth fiscal quarter.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 15:25
Transmeta has signed its latest LongRun 2 licensee, Sony, the chipmaker said today.
Monday, January 24, 2005 17:04
No time to waste at Transmeta : After hinting that it may stop manufacturing processors and shift and IP licensing model earlier this week, the company now introduced an evaluation platform and
Friday, January 07, 2005 21:06
For use in its current and future generation semiconductor products, Fujitsu Limited has licensed Transmeta Corp.'s LongRun2 power management and transistor leakage control technologies, the co
Thursday, December 02, 2004 19:27
The Effingeon 1GHz TMTA chip and the board will support a gigabyte of memory, and the mobo comes with a built in ATI M7 graphics controller.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004 13:49
Transmeta this week demonstrated its first 90nm Efficeon silicon operating at 1.6GHz and utilising the second generation of the company's LongRun power conservation technology.
Friday, June 04, 2004 13:50
Transmeta Corp.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 14:53
Japanese chip maker NEC said on Thursday it licensed Transmeta 's power leakage management technology and cemented the alliance by taking a small stake in the U.S.
Thursday, March 25, 2004 15:46
IBM Japan has developed a tiny prototype PC that measures just 16 x 8.2 x 2.2cm (6.4 x 3.3 x 0.9in) and weights a mere 300g (10.6oz), the company said today.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 15:43
Transmeta Corp.
Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:08
Sharp will introduce new models to its Mebius Muramasa range of slim-type notebooks in January, Japan Corporate News Network (JCNN) reported today.
Thursday, December 11, 2003 13:02
Thin-client vendor Wyse Technology Inc.
Friday, December 05, 2003 12:59
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