Crunch time for Transmeta

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Transmeta will ship a faster Efficeon chip in October, but will it gain ground against AMD and Intel parts in laptops?

In the late 1990s, silicon firm Transmeta promised to shake up mobile computing with a radical new chip design. Things looked promising for the startup company, which boasted Linux guru Linus Torva...

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