Transmeta (Semiconductor) (TMTA)

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When Transmeta entered the original service agreement with Sony in March 2005, they agreed on 4 projects if I remember right. One of them was to create and service debugging and software emulation tools for the CELL processor and derivatives.

Since Sony expects to use the CELL and derivatives for at least 10 years, and if they are satisfied with Transmetas work (todays news is a hint for that), this one project could as well go on 10 years, absorbing maybe 15-40 engineers. And maybe this lays the groundwork for similar projects with different companies or even be the start of Transmeta growing a "software leg" bringing out their own tools for non-CELL logic and market them independently.