NEC Electronics Corporation specializes in semiconductor products encompassing advanced technology solutions for the high-end computing and broadband networking markets, system solutions for the mobile handsets, PC peripherals, automotive and digital consumer markets, and platform solutions for a wide range of customer applications. NEC became a LongRun2 licensee in March, 2004 for applications from 90nm through 45nm.
"NEC Electronics has been promoting research and development of low power technologies such as parallel processing, multi gate-oxide film and multi threshold voltage, targeting the markets requiring power efficiency management," said Hirokazu Hashimoto, executive vice president for NEC Electronics.
"By licensing Transmeta's LongRun2 Technologies, we will be able to complement our existing low power technologies and lead the industry in markets such as wireless handsets, broadband networking and digital consumer electronics where low power is critically important."
Fujitsu Limited offers leading semiconductor technologies to their customers, currently in 90nm and 65nm processses, both through a foundry-based model as well as their own internally-developed products. Fujitsu maintains development of competititve process technologies for both high speed operation and low power consumption, and expects to utilize Transmeta's LongRun2 technologies in Fujitsu's current and future generation semiconductor products. Fujitsu became a LongRun2 licensee in November, 2004.
"Transmeta is well known for its focus on Efficient Computing," said Toshihiko Ono, group president of Fujitsu Limited's Electronic Devices Business Group.
"By working closely together with Transmeta, we expect to combine the capabilities of our high performance technologies and their low-power expertise for the benefit of our ASIC, CPU and foundry customers."
Sony Corporation (and Sony Computer Entertainment) licensed LongRun2 technologies for their applications, and also formed a strategic alliance with Transmeta for engineering services. In this engagement, Sony leveraged Transmeta's expertise in advanced low power semiconductor design and engaged Transmeta's engineering services on a wide range of projects, in particular to help accelerate and expand the adoption of LongRun2 Technologies within Sony. Sony became a LongRun2 licensee in January, 2005
"Transmeta's technology in building low-power consumption processors and their talented engineering team are highly respectable," said Ken Kutaragi, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment.
"We are excited to work with Transmeta as a way to further expand our capabilities in semiconductor chip design, software, power management and systems design for a broad range of products."
Toshiba Corporation, one of Japan's largest electronics companies and Japan's leader in semiconductors produces a wide range of advanced semiconductor device including digital cameras, multimedia and consumer electronics, automotive telematics, office automation and many others. Toshiba is also a collaborator with Sony and IBM in the development of the Cell processor and other high performance game semiconductors. Toshiba became a LongRun2 licensee in February 2006 for applications from 90nm through 22nm process nodes. Initially Toshiba executed a limited-scope license to LongRun2, then later expanded that license to an unlimited-scope one.
"Toshiba was impressed with the ingenuity of Transmeta's low power approaches," said Tomotaka Saito, General Manager, Broadband System LSI Division at Toshiba's semiconductor company.
"By licensing Transmeta's LongRun2 technologies, Toshiba will have additional techniques to add to our own power consumption reducing technologies to further reduce power in the semiconductor devices we provide to our customers."
