Last the pair of years the name of company transmeta appears in the news either in connection with the judicial claims to Intel or in the context of collaboration with AMD in the sphere of the development for technology energy-economy, which get application in processors opteron of the following generation (Barcelona). In 2005 the company transmeta decided to begin the restructuring of business, gradually rejecting the production of processors in favor of sale for the units of its own intellectual property. Associates with the reference to the representatives of company reported that Transmeta could be convinced of the correctness of the solution accepted.
After last several years the incomes Of transmeta from the license enterings exceeded incomes from sale of processors, and after the completion of restructuring company expects to economize yearly from $17 to $23 mln. on past Friday company discharged 39% of colleagues (75 men), occupied in the engineering services. In the ensuing year transmeta plans to reduce from 25 to 55 colleagues, and to also shut the offices of sales in Taiwan and in Japan.
Will be able Transmeta to successfully develop new technologies to sale with the remaining engineers, time will show. The management of the company start to understand that profit is planned to obtain not only from the licensing of old developments, but also from sale of new in the know-how. In its time the company IBM also conducted the restructuring of business, after being concentrated at the assignment of services in the sphere of information texnologies and the licensing of its developments, and also production servers of the solutions. As it is possible to judge by the regularly published news sequential successes IBM, this business- model completely justified itself.