NVIDIA pays Transmeta $25 million for LongRun technology

A select bunch of Transmeta investors may not completely agree with how the outfit is being managed, but one thing's for sure: it's bringing in some serious coin on this deal. During a brief timeout from counting those stacks of Benjamins handed over by Intel, it decided to license its Long Run and LongRun 2 technologies (among "other intellectual property") to NVIDIA for a cool $25 million. Additionally, the agreement grants NVIDIA a "non-exclusive and fully paid-up license" to all of Transmeta's patents and patent applications. Unfortunately, it's still unclear how exactly this will end up affecting NVIDIA fanboys (and girls), but we'll go out on a limb and suggest that a mobile GTX 280 with a remarkably low power draw is just around the bend.

[Via SlashGear]

[Hamodeh @ Aug 8th 2008 5:54AM]

where is fister :(

[anabouboula @ Aug 8th 2008 6:40AM]

Here!

F I S T!

[anabouboula @ Aug 8th 2008 6:45AM]

Here!
F I S T

[TRAFFICBLOWS @ Aug 8th 2008 8:12AM]

wow, way to be clueless, anabouboula!

[anabouboula @ Aug 8th 2008 9:12AM]

@ trafficblows....
Better Clueless than an R-Tard (Judging from your pathetic avatar....I'm really sure you are)

[nerdtalker @ Aug 8th 2008 11:02AM]

Lol, where is fister!?? Apparently someone wants to see some down and dirty Nvidia - Transmeta action here...

[Tim Brown @ Aug 8th 2008 6:19AM]

MID's with full 3D acceleration. Now that would be interesting. And before anyone asks, NO, the first few versions wont be able to play Crysis!

[Sohip @ Aug 8th 2008 6:25AM]

Can it play Doom?

[Brett @ Aug 8th 2008 6:49AM]

it's amazing that anyone would pay for transmetta... are they forgetting the CRU-SLOW CPU ?

[azx @ Aug 8th 2008 6:55AM]

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6195239.html

[azx @ Aug 8th 2008 6:57AM]

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6195239.html

[huh @ Aug 8th 2008 9:41AM]

they probably just want access to a patent portfolio so they can start suin' instead of innovatin'.

[mrgrim @ Aug 8th 2008 10:20AM]

@anabouboula

Ya know you could have put an e after the r your really not censoring anything.. If your gonna insult some one do it right. And your talking about his avatar at least he didn't copy the lil pmp tele guy from every one else... Bitch.

[maveric101 @ Aug 8th 2008 11:05AM]

i'm sorry, what's LongRun?

[BladeSling @ Aug 8th 2008 1:41PM]

I want to know as well...

[Homero Leal @ Aug 21st 2008 12:17AM]

Imagine, just imagine that NVIDIA could use this technology to build an engine for transcoding X86 instructions to run into their GPUS?
This will be amazing... you could have multiple virtual X86 processors to run unmodified X86 binaries. This will be innovation!!!

I think LongRun is just an fuzzy excuse...