Rumors about the possibility of transmeta company purchase by strategic investors was published already some time ago . Transmeta decided to reduce the staffs and to optimize the structure of its active memberships. Transmeta Subsequently planned to derive revenues from sale of its developments to strange companies. and here Analysts began to talk , that Transmeta can be purchased by one of the important chipset or processors producers .
These rumors where partially materialized yesterday, when in the official press release , transmeta stated about sale of shares for $7,5 mln to AMD company . This transaction was named strategic investments in future Transmeta. According to AMD representatives , the latter thank Transmeta for help in the development of technologies hyperTransport and AMD64, and expect to use those developed by transmeta energy-saving technologies in the good of AMD production .
It is obvious that AMD attempts to become the strategic investor Of transmeta, and to participate in making administrative decisions. on the present course AMD reached the shareholdings by 5% size . We should recognize that AMD continues to use strategy of obtaining access to the intellectual property or it attempts to obtain control over the developers of concrete technologies. We will not forget, that AMD and Transmeta connect license agreements, but the purchase of the shareholdings in some sense demonstrates loyalty AMD with respect to further collaboration.