Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation () is an American company created in 1995 by David Ditzel then taken again by Matthew R. Perry. This company, based with Santa Clara, designs compatible processors X86 of very low fuel consumption.

To arrive there, Transmeta proposes the absence of ventilator necessary to the cooling of its processors Crusoe and Efficeon, which enables him to design quieter cases, essential parameter for products portable or intended for a family use.

But Transmeta forever known to bore nor to develop decisive innovations for this market, and as of January 2005 it is obliged to fold up itself to concentrate on the sale of its knowledge to make technological.

Transmeta drew its reverence from the sector of the microprocessors on March 31st, 2005, by leaving behind him AMD, Intel and VIA to deal with the market of the semiconductor x86.

History

The company, created in 1995, gives initially only very little information on its objectives. Their Web page enters on line to the mid- 1997 but during two years and half approximately, nothing is posted except This web page is not young stag yet. ( this Web page is not yet here). But gradually the Entreprise reveals information, evoking the adoption of a named new technology Code Morphing. This technology consists in translating any code X86 into a comprehensible native code by their Processeur VLIW. At the time, rumors run in connection with a similar technology about the " Merced" , the processor under development at Intel. But the product of Transmeta was judicious to have the capacity for treatment of a super Ordinateur while being cheaper and simpler to manufacture than what its principal rivals could offer.

In 2002 , Transmeta launches its technology, presenting it as extraordinary a Innovation which will revolutionize the market of the Microprocesseur S basic consumption. Transmeta even claims to be the Leader of the effectiveness (performance Watt). A rapid examination of their Processeur Crusoe states however that its performances are clearly lagging behind. In addition, the market is not yet really ready during the development of Crusoe. Intel and AMD, the eternal combatants already engaged in a race with the MHz, also starts them to direct their efforts to reduce the consumption of their CPU.

Forced to note the insufficiencies of Crusoe, Transmeta decides to develop in the urgency new a CPU having for goal to be 3 times more powerful than its predecessor at equal frequency. In October 2003, Transmeta markets the Efficeon.

Technology

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Viability

August 1st

External bond

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