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Transmeta has licensed its LongRun and low-power chip technologies to graphics chip giant Nvidia for a one-time fee of $25 million.

(Credit: Transmeta)

Transmeta, an erstwhile chip vendor turned intellectual property supplier, said Nvidia was granted a non-exclusive license to Transmeta’s Long Run and LongRun2 technologies “and other intellectual property for use in connection with Nvidia products.”

The agreement grants to Nvidia a license to all of Transmeta’s patents and patent applications and covers “advanced power management and other computing technologies,” according to a statement from Transmeta.

LongRun2 technology is a suite of advanced power management and leakage control technologies.

Transmeta, formerly a supplier of low-power x86 processors, now develops and licenses microprocessor technologies and related intellectual property. The company
filed a lawsuit against Intel in October 2006 alleging that the latter infringed upon Transmeta’s patents. Transmeta later settled with Intel for $250 million.

Transmeta is presently focused on developing and licensing advanced power management technologies and licensing its computing and microprocessor technologies to other companies.