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Where is Transmeta Heading?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the change-of-plans dept.

Autoversicherung writes "Transmeta, once the darling of Silicon Valley, employer of Linus Torvalds and heralded as the new Intel is facing bleak times. Having $53.7 million in cash and short-term investments in its coffers, enough for just under two quarter's worth of operations and a reported net loss of $28.1 million and revenues of $11.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2004 the company's future is everything but certain. Will the planned restructuring to a pure IP company help?"

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  1. Linus left by morcheeba · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linus left Transmeta in mid-2003 and now works at the Open Source Development Labs. Here is ESR's unofficial Linux FAQ

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  2. Re:Willies by Will+Fisher · · Score: 5, Informative

    ARM is a strictly IP company and is very successful. Its processors are used in many, many embedded applications. Eg, most cellphones, the gameboy DS, the iPod, hard disk microcontrollers, microcontrollers in cars, PDAs, etc etc. They recieved royalties for over 1 billion units last year. ARM cores are everywhere.

    The difference is that ARM has always been an IP only company, ever since it was spun out of Acorn computers.

  3. Re:Patent hoarding... by nagora · · Score: 5, Informative
    What is the law now, that a person with a patent gets to enjoy the benifits of that patent for life?

    No, that's copyright. Patents vary slightly around the world but 20 years seems to be the norm.

    Do we really want only one company making medicines for a specific disease because they patented a gene sequence?

    No, which is indeed one of many reasons the USPO should be shot for allowing things it was never meant to allow, including discoveries instead of inventions.

    TWW

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