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Microprocessor designer Transmeta is looking for a buyer. Executives announced plans to sell the company on Wednesday, saying investment bank Piper Jaffray & Co. will act as its financial advisor during the sale process.

Intel engineers first began toying with a low-power microprocessor almost a decade ago, but their initial design was rejected by the company's top executives and the effort stalled soon after, an Intel executive said on Wednesday.

A variety of open source projects allow developers to experiment with virtual hardware configurations.

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.

Customer demand has prompted Xybernaut to introduce its own customized version of Linux as an option in its Atigo T line of wearable computers.

Perhaps the decision to name its flagship product after a fictional shipwrecked traveler who spent almost 30 years trapped on a small island was not the best of omens for Transmeta.

The nonprofit organization that created the software license that governs Linux says that it will not produce all of the material requested in a November subpoena it received from The SCO Group, as part of SCO's multi-billion dollar lawsuit against IBM.

Just when you thought it was over, bar the odd bit of Microsoft licence price gouging, the PC desktop wars may be about to erupt again. We know about Sun Microsystems' StarOffice and its megaphone marketing of it against MS Office but we also know that getting a SuSE Linux desktop software package and having it run your scanner, your tape drive, your printer and any other peripheral whose operation you take for granted in Microsoft's plug-and-play USB world, is pure fantasy, fit only for the most rabid Linux geek with a wardrobe full of anoraks.

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, is among the recipients of a flurry of subpoenas recently filed by IBM Corp. and The SCO Group Inc. as their seven-month-long legal battle continues.

Industry analysts were left scratching their heads as they tried to understand the reasoning behind ten subpoenas sent out by IBM and The SCO Group recently as part of their ongoing legal dispute.

Amid signs of a possible rebound in chip sales, semiconductor companies are gathering this week in the US to discuss future processor designs for both server and PC chips at the Microprocessor Forum.