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Microsoft isn't ready to discuss the new project, the paper said. Microsoft representatives in Europe couldn't comment early Monday, and Transmeta, in Santa Clara, California, could not immediately be reached.
Transmeta's main business is licensing chip technologies to hardware makers, including its LongRun technology for reducing power consumption in microprocessors. That technology is especially suited to portable devices where long battery life is important.
Microsoft doesn't generally build hardware products--its Xbox360 game console is made by contract manufacturers--but it often develops hardware "reference designs" for products that it wants other companies to build.
The engineering work with Microsoft was one of two significant services deals that Transmeta signed last year. The other, which it said was unrelated, was with Sony.
Few Details Divulged
Microsoft isn't ready to discuss the new project, the paper said. Microsoft representatives in Europe couldn't comment early Monday, and Transmeta, in Santa Clara, California, could not immediately be reached.
Transmeta's main business is licensing chip technologies to hardware makers, including its LongRun technology for reducing power consumption in microprocessors. That technology is especially suited to portable devices where long battery life is important.
Microsoft doesn't generally build hardware products--its Xbox360 game console is made by contract manufacturers--but it often develops hardware "reference designs" for products that it wants other companies to build.
The engineering work with Microsoft was one of two significant services deals that Transmeta signed last year. The other, which it said was unrelated, was with Sony.
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