Transmeta Promotes Jim Chapman and Doug Laird to Executive Vice President.Business Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2001 Transmeta Corporation (Nasdaq:TMTA TMTA Transmeta (stock symbol) TMTA Texas Music Teachers Association TMTA Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association TMTA Truro Morlaix Twinning Association (UK) ) today announced that James N. Chapman has been named executive vice president of sales and marketing and Douglas A. Laird has been named executive vice president of product development. "Jim Chapman James Louis "Jim" Chapman (born March 8, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American business and political leader. From 1985 to 1997, he served as Democratic Congressman representing the Texas's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. and Doug Laird have played key roles in driving the marketing and engineering results at Transmeta," said Mark Allen Mark Allen is the name of:
Chapman has served as Transmeta's senior vice president of sales and marketing since February 2000 and has maintained full responsibility for the company's sales and marketing organization since joining the Transmeta in September of 1997. Prior to joining Transmeta, he was senior vice president of sales and marketing for Cyrix Corporation and spent 11 years at Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . Laird is a co-founder of Transmeta Corporation and has served as the company's senior vice president of product development since February 2000. Prior to this position, he served as Transmeta's vice president of VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. . Laird has more than 20 years of engineering experience in microprocessor and system development. Before joining Transmeta, he was a member of the management team for the UltraSPARC I processor development effort at Sun Microsystems. He also managed several teams working on advanced development projects at Sun's SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill Laboratories and in the product development group of Sun's SPARC Technology Business Group. About Transmeta Corporation Transmeta is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. located in Santa Clara. Transmeta develops and sells software-based microprocessors and develops additional hardware and software technologies that enable computer manufacturers to build computers that simultaneously offer long battery life, high performance and x86 compatibility. Transmeta's family of Crusoe microprocessors is targeted at the notebook and Internet appliance segments of the mobile Internet computer market, as well as ultradense servers. To learn more about Transmeta and the Crusoe microprocessor, visit http://www.transmeta.com. |
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