Venture firm picks up Transmeta chip patents - CNET
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And Intellectual Ventures will provide other companies with access to Transmetas former patent rights under non-exclusive licensing terms. The portfolio contains many patents issued in the last few years and has generated, in total, approximately $300 million in revenue, the firm said. Transmetas claim to fame as a low-power x86-compatible chip supplier was transitory, and in 2007, about seven years after the company formed, it restructured and ceased being a chipmaker. Transmetas technology is centered on "code morphing" techniques and very long instruction word (VLIW) design architecture. "These (patent) additions cover inventions in high-performance, low-power, and embedded processors," Paul Reidy, vice president of semiconductor licensing at Intellectual Ventures, said in a statement.
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