Transmeta (Santa Clara, Calif.), signed series of agreements with Microsoft in May 2005 under which the company provided the services of approximately thirty engineers to work on “a proprietary Microsoft project,” Transmeta said in a 10-K form filed March 16 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to cover its 2005 financial results.

Transmeta added that the work had been “substantially completed” and that the company was negotiating the provision of additional services for 2006 although it did not necessarily expect the work to be at the same level as provided in 2005. However, Transmeta’s design services are not thought to be related to ‘Origami’ Microsoft’s design of ultracompact personal computer, according to online reports.

In the case of Sony Transmeta said it had provided the services of approximately 140 engineers to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Sony Corp. under design services agreements entered into on March 31, 2005. With Sony Transmeta said that although first stage contracts end on March 31, 2006, the company does expect to continue to provide services to the Sony Group after March 31, 2006.

Transmeta said that the two alliances are “strategic” although independent of and unrelated to each other. “We intend to continue to seek additional strategic alliance opportunities and related agreements with these or other parties to provide engineering services that leverage our microprocessor design and development capabilities,” Transmeta said in the 10-K.

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