Transmeta Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California.
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29 Facts About Transmeta
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Transmeta was founded in 1995 by Bob Cmelik, Dave Ditzel, Colin Hunter, Ed Kelly, Doug Laird, Malcolm Wing and Greg Zyner.
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In 2005, Transmeta increased its focus on licensing its portfolio of microprocessor and semiconductor technologies.
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Transmeta produced two x86 compatible CPU architectures: Crusoe and Efficeon – internal code names were 'Fred' and 'Astro'.
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Transmeta was largely successful in hiding its ambitions until its official company launch on January 19,2000.
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Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it: Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans until it had something to demonstrate to the world.
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On January 19,2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate what Crusoe processors can do.
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Transmeta attempted to staff the company in secret although speculation online was not uncommon.
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On January 19,2000, Transmeta held a launch event at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California and announced to the world that it had been working on an x86 compatible dynamic binary translation processor named Crusoe.
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Transmeta marketed their microprocessor technology as extraordinarily innovative and revolutionary in the low-power market segment.
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On November 7,2000, Transmeta had their initial public offering at the price of $21 a share.
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On October 14,2003, Transmeta announced the Efficeon processor which was claimed to have twice the performance of the original Crusoe CPU at the same frequency.
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In March 2005, Transmeta announced that it was laying off 68 people while retaining 208 employees.
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On May 31,2005, Transmeta announced the signing of asset purchase and license agreements with Hong Kong's Culture.
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On October 11,2006, Transmeta announced that they had filed a lawsuit against Intel Corporation for infringement of ten Transmeta US patents covering computer architecture and power efficiency technologies.
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On February 7,2007, Transmeta shut down its engineering services division terminating 75 employees in the process.
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On October 24,2007, Transmeta announced an agreement to settle its lawsuit against Intel Corporation.
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Transmeta agreed to license several of its patents and assign a small portfolio of patents to Intel as part of the deal.
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In late 2008, Intel and Transmeta reached a further agreement to transfer the $20 million per year in one lump sum.
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Transmeta had a succession of 6 different chief executive officers who ran the company over its lifetime.
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Transmeta was once named as the Most important company in Silicon Valley in an Upside magazine editorial but failed to obtain profitability while it was a chip vendor.
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Transmeta received a total of $969M in funding during its lifetime.
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Crusoe was the first family of microprocessors from Transmeta, named after the literary character Robinson Crusoe.
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Transmeta lost much credibility and endured significant criticism due to the large discrepancies between projected performance and power consumption and the actual results.
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Transmeta processors were in-order very long instruction word cores running a special dynamic binary translation software layer which together implemented compatibility with the x86 architecture.
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Transmeta trademarked the term "Code Morphing" to describe their technology and referred to the software layer as Code Morphing Software.
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Transmeta used reverse body bias to reduce power used by a factor of about 2.
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The Transmeta approach set a much higher bar for x86 compatibility due to its ability to execute all x86 instructions from initial boot up to the latest multimedia instructions.
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