Neowin News Feed for: Transmeta

Transmeta Gets $7.5 Million Infusion From AMD

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:21:19 +0000

Transmeta Corporation has received a $7.5 million boost from Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated in exchange for an undisclosed amount of Transmeta preferred stock. Transmeta did not reveal what it will do with the money, and... Read more...

Intel Countersues Transmeta

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:52:23 +0000

Thanks to Hurmoth for posting this in BPN. Here we go again. Intel is countersuing Transmeta, alleging that the chip designer infringes on seven of its patents. Intel's retaliation comes three months after Transmeta took... Read more...

Transmeta Finds A Buyer And Investor In NEC

Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:41:24 +0000

Microprocessor company Transmeta Corp. says NEC Electronics has become the first company to license Transmeta technology for reducing the "leakage" of electrical current in computer chips. In addition, the companies say Japanese chipmaker NEC took... Read more...

Nvidia to make chipsets for Transmeta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:54:33 +0000

Further extending its reach beyond graphics processors, Nvidia will produce chipsets for Transmeta's Efficeon processor, the companies said Tuesday. The Nvidia C8000 will essentially connect the processor to other components inside a computer and likely... Read more...

Linux lab lures Torvalds from Transmeta

Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:11:11 +0000

The creator of the freely available Linux operating system will join the Open Source Development Lab, a consortium designed to bring high-end features to the software. Linus Torvalds, who will become an... Read more...

New Transmeta chip shows Athlon64 flair

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:25:05 +0000

Transmeta's TM8000 chip will feature an entirely new architecture, executives say, but it will also share some design ideas with the upcoming Athlon64 from Advanced Micro Devices. The TM8000, formerly known as the Astro, will... Read more...

Transmeta to Embed Security Features in Processor

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:47:46 +0000

Transmeta Corp. On Tuesday announced plans to offer a processor with embedded security features as the semiconductor design company races against its much-larger rival Intel Corp. In the market for chips custom-made for mobile computing.... Read more...

David talks chips. Transmeta and Palladium

Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:13:00 +0000

THE CEO OF Transmeta, David Ditzel, has disclosed the firm's plans for implementing Palladium on the firm's future CPUs In an interview with Japanese web site PC Watch, Ditzel also revealed details... Read more...

Transmeta to fly with Astro chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:35:28 +0000

Transmeta, which has suffered through a difficult year and a half, is gearing up for a comeback with Astro, a newly designed microprocessor due out in 2003. Astro, which is being shown off for the... Read more...

NEC puts Transmeta in silent desktop PC

Thu, 09 May 2002 20:57:21 +0000

The first all-in-one desktop PC to feature Transmeta's low processor is now available in Japan. The NEC Mate features the 900Mhz TM5800, but the remarkable thing about it is that it is... Read more...

Transmeta offers new smaller Crusoe chip

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:44:03 +0000

Transmeta announced on Monday a new chip that it said uses one-third the space on a notebook's motherboard that its current Crusoe processors do. Transmeta said that because the Crusoe TM6000 takes... Read more...