Re: Do you all think AMD invested in TMTA rather than have TMTA sue them? I can't think of any other reason to invest 7M.
No, Kate. The cost of licensing TMTA's IP would have been cheaper than $7M.
I think AMD wants to collaborate on a project, but since TMTA is losing money hand over fist, they've asked AMD to pony up at least half the funding. $7M times 2 companies can pay for a $14M project. What would you like to choose as the annual cost of your average high level engineer? How about $140k, so it's a round number? In this case, they can have 100 people working on something for a year, 50 people working on something for 2 years, etc (ballpark).
AMD mentioned a project called Bobcat, which is supposed to get them into ultra low power devices:
I would speculate that AMD has added people to enable LR2 in the Bobcat project, so that they can compete with Intel's Silverthorne processor. It's just a wild ass guess, but who knows....
AMD already had a patent license from the time when they did the AMD64 emulator deal with Transmeta so it didn't need to buy a patent license.
Transmeta has a patent suit pending against Intel and has almost no cash left to run a very expensive patent lawsuit that is probably costing $2 million plus a year to run. It is quite ppossible that the investment is intended to provide cash for Transmeta to pursue its patent law suit against Intel.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Here is some cash go make war on Intel.
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