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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...