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Transmeta Acquired by Novafora

The Santa Clara-based Transmeta Corporation and Novafora, Inc. announced inking a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Transmeta for $255.6 million in cash, subject to certain working capital and other adjustments. Novafora is based in San Jose, California, a privately held fabless semiconductor company that d...

19 November 2008
06:24 GMT

The Current State of Transmeta: “For Sale”

The Santa Clara-based Transmeta, former supplier of low-power Intel-compatible processors, announced on Wednesday that it started looking for a buyer. The company also announced two agreements with Intel. The  company is a well known supplier of chip patents. It revealed that over the past few months, it had bee...

25 September 2008
04:55 GMT

Nvidia to License Low-Power Technologies from Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation recently announced that it included Nvidia into its group of LongRun and LongRun2 low-power technologies licensees. It looks like this licensing might keep the company alive for quite a long time. Nvidia had to pay a "one-time, non-refundable license fee of $25 million", which granted the Santa ...

8 August 2008
03:13 GMT

Confirmed: Sun Buys out Intel's CPU Rival

Server manufacturer Sun has just confirmed that it inked a buyout deal with the super-secretive CPU startup Montalvo, as previous rumors had indicated. The small company was built by the ex-Transmeta executives and pitched at delivering an all-in-one processor wonder able to tear down Intel's domination on the d...

25 April 2008
03:35 GMT

Transmeta Gets $150 Million for Intel Lawsuit Settlement

Intellectual property company Transmeta has received the first $150 million as part of the deal inked with chip manufacturer Intel. The ex-supplier of low-voltage x86 CPUs is currently developing and licensing microprocessor technologies with the accompanying intellectual property. Immediately after the transition, T...

11 February 2008
09:09 GMT

Transmeta to Munch on Buyout Offer, Hires Financial Council

Chip designer Transmeta has had quite a bad year and the third quarter revenue reached a faint $44,000, which simply drove its shareholders mad. Poor performance on the market and its faulty management lead to a catastrophic series of events that will finally render the company to bankruptcy.Riley Investment Manageme...

8 February 2008
04:30 GMT

Small Startup Tries to Steal Intel's Glory on the CPU Market

The CPU market is a harsh environment, where even the old and experienced can sometimes fail lamentably. Small start-ups have many times attempted to take over large companies using a technological "ace in the sleeve", but they all failed.Things may be different this time, or so does Montalvo Systems wish us to belie...

6 February 2008
10:23 GMT

Transmeta Gets Bombed by Shareholders Over Faint Revenue

Chip manufacturer Transmeta was about to be torn into pieces by its own angry shareholders because of its poor performance in the third quarter of 2007. Formerly known as a fierce competitor in the x86 processor market, the company posted a revenue of only $44,000 in the third quarter of 2007, which drove its shareho...

4 February 2008
09:26 GMT

Transmeta Tries to Raise More Cash

After years of seeing its market share and stocks decline Transmeta now tries to secure an important sum in order to secure its financial position for the remainder of the year. The company tries to raise $12.8 million in cash from selling 2 million Transmeta common stock shares and from warrants to purchase another ...

24 September 2007
04:15 GMT

Transmeta's Problems Are Not Over

Transmeta announced its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2007 and the news isn't good. During the second quarter, the company registered revenues of $171.000, including "146,000 of service revenue and $25,000 of end-of-life product revenue", much lower than the revenues registered duri...

7 August 2007
02:53 GMT

AMD Is Buying Transmeta Piece by Piece

AMD and Transmeta are becoming more and more bonded it seems, as the well-known CPU producer invests again in the energy-efficient chip company. Lately, Transmeta has been battling decreased revenues and higher losses, but with no apparent success, as it faced delisting from the Nasdaq stock market because of its low...

9 July 2007
13:09 GMT

M2 Mobile Phone Chip with LongRun2 Technologies

NEC Electronics will bring the M2 Mobile Phone Chip as to develop a more reliable technology for mobile phones. The new concept will be using Transmeta's LongRun2 solutions, one which manages to bring the best solutions for delivering smaller, more compact devices on the telecom market. This type of technology h...

6 July 2007
05:04 GMT


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