News Release from: Transitive Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 March 2002

Dynamite technology wins innovation award

Transitive Technologies has been named UK Technology Partnering and Investment Forum "Innovator of the year" for its Dynamite CPU accelerator software technology.

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Transitive Technologies has been named UK Technology Partnering and Investment Forum "Innovator of the year" for its Dynamite CPU accelerator software technology. The company, which received initial funding from Pond Venture Partners, was presented with the award at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on 7th March. The forum is sponsored by a number of organisations including Price Waterhouse Coopers and the London Stock Exchange.

Dynamite software performs dynamic binary translation and acceleration so that any microprocessor (CPU) hardware can achieve maximum run-time performance while running its own or a different CPU's code: for example, in an embedded application such as a set top box, it could enable access to X86 code (such as plug-ins) and execute it in the set top box MIPS CPU; or in mobile applications, it could take ARM code and execute it on non-ARM CPUs with complete transparency to both the system and the user.

In non-embedded applications, Dynamite could enable makers of "non-X86" workstation, desktops, laptops etc, migrate to X86-based platforms from Intel, AMD or Transmeta, if they wanted to take advantage of a more aggressive price/performance roadmap.

Transitive Technologies licences the software on a per-CPU basis in a global CPU market estimated to be worth $23 billion.

Transitive's technical team is based in Manchester but its headquarters is now in San Diego, from where its US sales and application support operations are directed.

The company's CTO, Alasdair Rawsthorne, stated, "This award is the culmination of research work which started at the University of Manchester over five years ago.

We are naturally delighted that in the short space of time since the company was formed, Dynamite has become so well accepted in the marketplace".

Transitive Technologies was founded in October 2000 after Pond Venture Partners identified that the technology being developed at the University of Manchester had great potential.

It subsequently became involved in forming the spin-out company with an initial investment of $3 million.

Richard Irving, Pond's CEO, commented, "This was a classic example of a Pond investment: we identified that the University had developed a technology which had wide application in many growing market segments, and we worked with them to form a company which could exploit it".

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