TRANSMETA CORP., Santa Clara, Calif., a start-up chip maker that is challenging the Intel Corp. in some of its hottest markets, said Philips Components, Sunnyvale, Calif., a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, Amsterdam, would use its processors in a line of touch-screen computer displays.
AMD is riding high on the popularity of cheap computers that use its processors.
AMD has persuaded many computer makers to use its processors, even Sun Microsystems, which has Opterons powering some high-end servers.
(See: "AMD Reportedly Close To Dell Deal").. Also, Intel was able to get uber-hip Apple Computer to agree to use its processors this year, and the first ad campaign out of Apple needled the "dull little boxes" that Intel's chips had been going into, clearly targeting Dell.
Intel announced that 70 vendors with more than 230 designs are using its processors.
The company attributed the decline in sales to sluggish worldwide demand for video players that use its digital processors and image semiconductor chips.
The supercomputer at the lab, expected to be completed by 2004, will use its 130,000 processors to simulate physical phenomena like the aging of materials, fires and explosions, potentially useful in safety and security planning.
Electronics manufacturers such as Sharp, Toshiba and Marantz, among others, use its DVD processors.
Samsung will use its own Exynos processor in Galaxy S7 models sold in South Korea and some other countries.
It is working with manufacturers that will use its designs and its processors to run their devices, Mr. Jensen said.
