While intel and amd continue bringing low-power mobile chips to market, Transmeta is faced with the possibility of shifting its focus from operations and toward licensing its technologies. Adding pressure to Transmeta, AMD last week started shipping the 90-nanome-ter versions of its Mobile Athlon 64 processors, code-named Oakville, to PC makers. Systems based on the chips are expected to be available in the coming months. Four years after its debut, Transmeta has racked up $591 million in losses and watched rival Intel enjoy the spoils of an indus- trywide move toward low-power mobile processors. Transmeta, in fact, said earlier this month that it might have to scale back operations to concentrate on its fledgling licensing business if it needs to raise cash in the coming quarters and runs into problems securing credit.
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