Efficeon nets PC industry backing
News Chipmaker Transmeta said on Wednesday that a wide range of PC infrastructure companies -- involved in technologies such as firmware, chipsets, and graphics technology needed for basic PC operations -- have agreed to support its upcoming Efficeon...
[October 1, 2003, 15:20]
Transmeta retreats from manufacturing
News The Santa Clara, California-based company, which has lost more $500m (£265m) in the last five years, has dropped two chips from its product lineup - the Crusoe processor and the 130nm Efficeon - and will manufacture select models of 90nm Efficeon...
[April 1, 2005, 9:15]
Transmeta casts Efficeon chip as saviour
News Transmeta’s latest chip, the Efficeon, will debut in notebooks later this year, forming a key element in the struggling company’s comeback attempt. Formerly code-named Astro, the Efficeon will "dramatically increase performance and take care of...
[August 12, 2003, 11:05]
Transmeta makes minuscule Crusoe chips
News Last October, it launched the Efficeon, a higher-performance processor designed for notebook PCs. The chipmaker is expected to discuss the Efficeon processor and possibly unveil new customers who are using the chip at the Consumer Electronics Show...
[January 5, 2004, 15:40]
HP unveils low-cost Transmeta thin clients
News The company is hoping that its Efficeon chip, formerly code-named Astro, will provide a much-needed sales boost when it appears in products this year. Efficeon will initially appear in mini-notebooks and tablet PCs; two relatively small markets...
[September 15, 2003, 13:25]
HP reveals its latest blade
News The Blade PC bc1000, HP's first blade model, will start at about $800 and come with a 1GHz Efficeon TM8000 processor, the latest low-power processor from chipmaker Transmeta, HP said. Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier for a company to control...
[April 27, 2004, 9:40]
Transmeta sells microprocessor unit
News Culture.com Technology Limited, a subsidiary of Culturecom Holdings of Hong Kong, will purchase the rights to the Crusoe microprocessor, the first chip produced by Transmeta, and acquire a licence to produce its successor, the Efficeon chip, on...
[June 2, 2005, 9:50]
Transmeta's woes continue
News It will discontinue making 130-nanometer Efficeon chips and only make Crusoe and 90-nanometer Efficeon processors to meet demand for critical products. The announcement comes five years and a day after the company publicly unfurled its first...
[January 24, 2005, 11:10]
AMD to sell Transmeta chips in emerging markets
News AMD will sell Transmeta's Efficeon chips under the AMD brand for PCs in the Microsoft FlexGo project. The Efficeon chips, which are cheaper than standard PC processors, are the only chips approved for the programme.
[June 6, 2006, 9:35]
Transmeta adds buffer-overflow protection at chip level
News New technology will be included in Efficeon processors that will work with a virus protection feature Microsoft plans to include in Windows XP Service Pack 2, the second major update to Windows XP, due in the second quarter of 2004.
[May 18, 2004, 9:00]
