Transmeta Corporation

Also known as Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It developed low power x86 compatible microprocessors based on a VLIW core and a software layer called Code Morphing Software.

Key facts

Company.name: Transmeta Corporation
Company.logo: 240px|Transmeta Corporation
Company.type: Private
Company.fate: Acquired by Novafora, patent portfolio sold to Intellectual Ventures.
Company.location: Santa Clara, California
Company.key_people: Murray A. Goldman, David Ditzel, Colin Hunter
Company.num_employees: 24 (2009)
Company.parent: Novafora
Company.industry: Intellectual property licensing
Company.products: Microprocessors, microprocessor patents
Company.revenue: $2.48 million (2007)
Company.operating_income: -$61.121 million (2007)

Article

18 sections

Contents

History
Stealth start-up
Public launch
Management and staff
Corporate governance
Notable employees
Financial history
Funding
Products
Crusoe
Efficeon
Implementations
Technology
Code Morphing Software
VLIW core
Native compilation
References
External links

Code Morphing Software (CMS) consisted of an interpreter, a runtime system and a dynamic binary translator. x86 instructions were first interpreted one instruction at a time and profiled, then depending upon the frequency of execution of a code block, CMS would progressively generate more optimized translations.