RSSAMD Invests in Struggling Transmeta
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 6, 2007, 4:13 PM
AMD said Friday that it would invest $7.5 million in Transmeta in order to support its work in developing efficiency technology for microprocessors. In turn for cash infusion, AMD would receive preferred stock in the company. The move continues Transmeta's transition away from producing chips to a licenser of chip technology that it develops.
The deal also has a indirect connection to AMD's chief rival Intel. The larger chipmaker and Transmeta are currently involved in a patent dispute over energy efficiency technology. AMD is currently fighting a antitrust lawsuit against Intel as well. AMD may be hoping that aligning itself with Transmeta could end up helping it to compete better with its rival, although the eventual decision in the patent case may impact those plans.
I see this in a different light.
$7.5 is not that much money in the grand scale of things.
This will undoubtedly cover AMD against similar legal action, after all there CPU’s are more efficient than Intel and could use technology already patented. It could also ensure AMD’s lead over Intel in performance to power overall.
AMD must think that Transmeta have a case, and they are in the right business to know the score. I think the knowledge Transmeta have in regard to parallel processing is worth the price alone.
Hope is works for you AMD.
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after all there CPU’s are more efficient than Intel
Actually that has not been the case for a while now. The Core 2 line is much more efficient than AMD's current CPUs. I imagine that is why they are interested in Transmeta's technology, they are planning to use it to catch up with Intel. I hope they do, the competition is much needed but it isn't looking good for them. I'm wondering if Transmeta's technology is so good why are they a struggling company that has to resort to lawsuits to stay afloat?
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And yet motherboards in testing when using AMD are actually more efficient. This has allot to do with the architecture and design of the AMD chips. By incorporating features on die that normally appear on the motherboard and not having to incorporate huge chunks of onboard ram on chip to get the most performance boost.
http://www.tomshardware....-in-the-cold/index.html
Although Intel is on a winner with the Duo … if you’re going to buy hundreds of computers and cant stretch to a Duo, AMD is the most attractive when you total your yearly energy consumption. Even if you can afford to go Duo, AMD is still a very strong option to dismiss price performance wise.
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'Fraid not, Alex. Try to keep up. The recent launch of the BE processors from AMD are far more efficient than the Intel Core 2 line. And although they don't perform as well, they've got the bang for buck tied up too.
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Ok, those are new to me so I stand corrected on the power consumption point. No need to be pompous about it by the way. They're pretty slow though, may as well buy a Celeron. As far as them having the best bang for buck tied up looks like Intel still has the lead. Also don't forget that Intel is planning some major price cuts in a few weeks.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/...re-roundup_8.html#sect0
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Most of us posting here or buying hardware and building our own computers. Aren't nearly worries about power consumption per year but how much bang for the buck we get. Different systems will net you differently in each category. I know for sure when I go buy my processor i dont' say i wonder if buying this processor that doesnt even compete could save me and extra $1.21 by the end of the year. OH MY!
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If I didn't know any better I'd think AMD was trying to go bankrupt.
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Did someone tell Hector it was opposite day again?
I *really* wish they'd quit doing that...
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In Bizzaro World, you *have* to spend money you don't have.
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And it's highly likely that AMD will go bankrupt if it continues like this.
The Intel Centrino staff and all designers that joined forces with the Israeli division that let Intel survive after the infamous Tejas/Prescott failure and billions lost in R&D, are going to release the first Terascale technology products beginning next year with the Larrabee multi-core CGPU. And the next Intel 8-core Nehalem CPUs planner for 2008 as well are surely going to cause AMD a lot more trouble than what they think. If Intel engineers don't make any major mistakes there seems no way AMD could sustain the pressure for many years this way...
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