Venture Firm Picks up Transmeta Chip Patents

Transmeta is back in the news today. The big news today is that a company called Intellectual Ventures, founded by Microsoft’s ex-CTO, has picked up 140 of Transmeta's patents (current and pending). Gee, I wonder what they want with all those patents?

Transmeta's claim to fame as a low-power x86-compatible chip supplier was transitory, and in 2007, about seven years after it formed, it restructured and ceased being a chipmaker. It morphed into a Rambus-like IP (intellectual property) company that sues other companies for patent infringement.

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