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A fabless semiconductor company developing ultra low-power system-on-chips for mobile devices.
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was in talks to buy
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Transmeta CEO at your start-up?
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Montalvo
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Chip start-up Montalvo looks to speed mobile devices
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911:Visual Instruction Set
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1147:Project Looking Glass
76:As of 24 April 2008,
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1106:Visualization System
1101:Constellation System
994:Java Desktop System
377:"Cal-EASI Database"
311:Montalvo CFO leaves
29:Cell microprocessor
881:Modular Datacenter
496:Acquired by Oracle
61:x86 virtualization
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1291:Lighthouse Design
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673:Blade workstation
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94:Boulder, Colorado
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201:$ 26,299,998.53
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98:Bangalore, India
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17:Montalvo Systems
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339:References
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1177:Community
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866:Fireplane
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90:Transmeta
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55:) and
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