Transmeta
RSS TransmetaHigh-Density Computing: A 240-Processor Beowulf in One Cubic Meter
White Paper The cluster consists of 240 Transmeta TM5600 667-MHz CPUs mounted on RLX Technologies motherboard blades. This paper present result from computations on Green Destiny, a 240-processor Beowulf cluster which is contained... [03 Dec 2008]
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News Given that only a tiny fraction of the x86 chip market goes to other competitors such as Transmeta or Via Technologies, almost all of AMD's gains come at Intel's expense, or vice-versa. Intel continued to reclaim server... [31 Jan 2007]
Intel hit with energy-efficiency patent suit
News Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take on Intel in the laptop market, is suing Intel for patent infringement. Transmeta alleges Intel infringed on one of its patents when it inserted a... [12 Oct 2006]
I won't convert Linux to GPL 3, says Torvalds
News For example, Torvalds worked for years on proprietary software at chip designer Transmeta and he permits proprietary video card drivers to be loaded as modules into the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds said on Wednesday that... [27 Jan 2006]
Intel CEO rages against monopolistic lawsuit
News After a raid on its offices in Japan, Intel agreed to work with Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), which accused Intel of offering rebates to five Japanese PC makers - Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Sony and Toshiba - in exchange for refusing... [30 Jun 2005]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
Comment Torvalds worked for years at now-struggling chip designer Transmeta, but he now plans to stay with his current employer, Open Source Development Labs in Oregon, "for the foreseeable future". When Linus Torvalds... [21 Dec 2004]
Hand-sized PC finally unleashed
News The small size is possible, in part, because the computer runs on 1GHz Transmeta processors, which consume less energy than regular PC chips. The company that first popularised the concept of a PC that fits in your hand... [30 Sep 2004]
Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley
News Until changing jobs nearly a year ago, Torvalds worked at Transmeta, a processor designer in Santa Clara, California. Linux leader and founder Linus Torvalds is moving with his family to Portland, Oregon, farther from... [14 Jun 2004]
Intel and Red Hat team for Linux security
News The security technology, called NX for 'no execute', is built into several x86 processors from AMD, Intel and Transmeta. Linux seller Red Hat and chipmaker Intel have released prototype Linux software to support a... [07 Jun 2004]
Linux a nice little earner for HP
News The Compaqt5300 and t5500, based on Transmeta processors, plug into central Linux servers through technology from the Linux Terminal Server Project, which is a project closely affiliated with education customers. [15 Jan 2004]
Linus gets lawyers for defence in SCO lawsuit
News Also requested to provide legal information were John Horsley, CEO of Torvalds' former employer Transmeta, and Richard Stallman, who is founder of the Free Software Foundation, creator of the GPL, and the man whose GNU's... [14 Nov 2003]
Torvalds hit with SCO Linux lawsuit subpoena
News Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stuart Cohen, CEO of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta. [13 Nov 2003]
Linus back on the full-time penguin push
News Linus Torvalds has been lured away from Transmeta to work full-time on his first love Linux. Torvalds will join OSDL on a leave from his position as a Transmeta technical fellow, where he has been... [17 Jun 2003]
IBM backs AMD's Opteron server chip
News Similarly, IBM started to resell a blade server from RLX Technologies that used chips from Transmeta but then came out with its own blade server, signed a blade alliance with Intel and cancelled its deal with RLX. [23 Apr 2003]
HP sharpens its blade's cutting edge
News He said: "Consider what it's competing against - other Pentium III designs, the even more modestly powered Transmeta Crusoe, or Sun blades running at just 650MHz. HP is to upgrade its ProLiant BL10e blade server with a... [22 Apr 2003]
