Sony to use Transmeta’s technology in cell derivatives

Electronic News reports that Sony will be incorporating Transmeta’s LongRun2 power management and heat reduction technology in Cell derivatives.

Under the new strategic alliance with Sony, Transmeta will help the consumer electronics giant accelerate and expand its adoption of Transmeta's LongRun2 technologies in products such as Cell derivatives, and provide additional assistance on Cell processor development.

Transmeta said “over 100” of its 208 employees will be fully dedicated to the Sony engineering effort, and the deal with Sony calls for payment on a per engineer basis. By structuring the deal in this way, Transmeta said Sony will ultimately fund about half of Transmeta’s slimmed-down workforce.

The Cell processor is a next generation processor under development by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, slated to go into production at the end of this year. Sony expects to use the processor as the brains behind its next generation PlayStation3.

Read the article by Jessica Davis here.