Transmeta ships 90 nanometre processor
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TRANSMETA HAS started shipping limited quantities of its X86 compatible Efficeon TM8800 processor, a low-powered CPU fabbed on 90-nanometre silicon.
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Chipmaker follows recent price cuts to the Pentium M line with a new top-of-the-range model that runs at 2.10GHz.
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Powerful computer processor will be modified for mobile devices.
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Processors offer significant power savings, chip maker says.
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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it has begun shipping a 3700+ mobile Athlon 64 processor. The chip maker also confirmed it has started shipping processors on its 90-nanometer manufacturing process for revenue.
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Welcome to the age of 45-nanometer chips. Intel's first 45-nm processor, the quad-core Penryn QX9650 for the desktop, is being discussed by the press and industry in anticipation of its official November 12 launch. The initial response to the powerful new processor has been positive, although many are suggesting that it begs for innovation in software.
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Intel has built a fully functional 70Mb static random access memory (SRam) chip with more than half a billion transistors, using 65nanometer (nm) process technology.
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Company will manufacture a dual-core PowerPC processor.
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The Fusion processor will be based on a microprocessor used in  desktops currently shipping to enthusiast PC users such as gamers.
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Latest and greatest processor offers substantial advances Sun has announced the UltraSPARC T2, which it has dubbed the world's fastest commodity microprocessor.â¦
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD Inc.'s) 90-nanometer notebook processors are on their way to customers, according to a research note published by Goldman Sachs & Co. Thursday.ADVERTISEMENTIntroducing IBM eServer p5 systems.Powered by IBMâs most advanced 64-bit microprocessor (POWER5(tm)), p5 systems can run UNIX and Linux simultaneously. Learn more about eServer p5 systems.
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CEO Paul Otellini shows off a prototype processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating point operations per second.
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Chipmaker becomes the last of several well-known chip companies to begin making 90-nanometer processors.
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The first microprocessor to pack more than two billion transistors is launched by silicon giant Intel.
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A chip capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) is unveiled by Intel.
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(InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro DevicesÂ is investing $7.5 million in energy-efficient chip company Transmeta, which has beenÂ battling falling revenueÂ and widening losses. The investment, announced Friday, comes a year after AMD said it wouldÂ resell Transmeta's Efficeon processorsÂ in PCs for developing countries, and three months after Transmeta said itÂ faced delistingÂ from the Nasdaq stock market because of its low share price. Transmeta shot to fame in the late 1990s when the vendor said it was developing a groundbreaking line of ultra low power processors for notebooks PCs. The Crusoe chips did not sell as well as expected, however, due to product delays and disappointing performance. Transmeta did secure a few licensing deals, notably in Japan, but it also wracked up heavy losses. In January 2005 the vendor announced job cuts and said it would switch its focus to licensing its power management technology to other companies. Later that year Transmeta agreed toÂ sell its Crusoe chips to Hong Kong companyÂ Culturecom TechnologyÂ for $15 million in cash. Last year's deal with AMD, to resell Transmeta chips in Microsoft's pay-by-instalment PC initiative, raised the vendor's prospects again. But in March Transmeta said it faced delisting from the Nasdaq because its stock price fell below $1 for more than 30 consecutive days. Transmeta's stock closed at $0.70 a share on Thursday, but it jumped 50 percent in premarket trading Friday on news of AMD's investment. Transmeta reported revenue of $2.1 million for its first fiscal quarter in May, down from $19.5 million in the same period a year earlier. Its losses widened to $18.7 million, from $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2006. AMD made its investment in exchange for Transmeta stock. The chip vendor called Transmeta "an innovative force in the industry" and said it had been a key ally in bringing AMD's AMD64 technology, the basis of its Opteron chips, to market. "Our investment will support Transmeta's technology development work and AMD's efforts to leverage Transmeta's innovative energy-efficient technologies to the benefit of AMD's customers," Dirk Meyer, AMD's president and chief operating officer, said in a statement. Separately, Transmeta said in a regulatory filing last month that David Ditzel, the company's co-founder and its first CEO, was resigning from the vendor's board of directors effective June 15. He'll receive a severance payment of $210,000 in three installments, the company said. Ditzel may do consulting work for the company until June 2008, according to the filing. Â
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The company that years ago set out to become a legitimate alternative to Intel, and blazed the trail that AMD eventually followed, today announced it is setting aside its patent infringement claim against Intel. The companies have reached an out-of-court settlement granting Intel perpetual license to Transmeta's CPU power management technology, in exchange for $150 million in cash up front and $100 million more over the next five years.