MacNN | Transmeta News http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us Transmeta, Latest News, Headlines, Stories; http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ Rumors reappear of NVIDIA making x86 chips http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/03/nvidia.may.make.end.run.around.intel/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiageforce9400m-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman today revived talk of NVIDIA making its own x86 processors in a new research note. He claims that the graphics company has been recruiting "extensively" from employees of the one-time chip designer Transmeta and is using these to speed along one or more unknown designs. It may also not need to use Transmeta-like code translation as many of the original x86... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/03/nvidia.may.make.end.run.around.intel/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT NVIDIA licenses Transmeta power technology http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/08/nvidia.transmeta.license/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0808/nvidiageforce9800mgtx.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA today licensed a collection of technologies from Transmeta for $25 million that will potentially improve the power use of the former's graphics and mainboard hardware. The license primarily grants NVIDIA access to LongRun2, a technique to reduce the amount of waste power for processors and similar chips. The approach uses a combination of circuitry and advanced math to reduce the effect o... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/08/nvidia.transmeta.license/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:25:00 GMT