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  • Mystery deal is high-security chip for 'FlexGo' (Microsoft/Transmeta Pay-as-you-go PC)

    05/21/2006 9:23:46 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 2 replies · 122+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer (excerpt) ^ | May 22, 2006 | Todd Bishop
    Excerpt - The details of Microsoft Corp.'s mysterious deal with Transmeta Corp. have finally been revealed. And none of the speculation was even close. The microprocessor company has been working for the past year on a high-security, power-efficient chip for Microsoft's new "FlexGo" pay-as-you-go PC initiative in developing nations. The "FlexGo" card for the program in Brazil works like a prepaid phone card. Users pay in advance for minutes on their home PCs. "This happens to be the project we were working on," said Art Swift, Transmeta's president and chief executive, in an interview about the FlexGo initiative. So the...