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Transmeta
American semiconductor design company
Transmeta
Transmeta Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It developed low-power x86-compatible microprocessors based on a VLIW core and a software layer called Code Morphing Software. Code Morphing Software (CMS) consisted of an interpreter, a runtime system, and a dynamic binary translator. x86 instructions were first interpreted one instruction at a time and profiled, and then, based on the frequency of execution of a code block, CMS would progressively generate more optimized translations. The VLIW core implemented features specifically designed to accelerate CMS and translations. Among the features were support for general speculation, detection of memory aliasing, and detection of self-modifying x86 code. The combination of CMS and the VLIW core achieved of full x86 compatibility while maintaining performance and reducing power consumption. Transmeta was founded in 1995 by Bob Cmelik, Dave Ditzel, Colin Hunter, Ed Kelly, Doug Laird, Malcolm...
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