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Fujitsu to Adopt Transmeta's Crusoe Chip in PCs TOKYO (Reuters) - Fujitsu Ltd (6702.T) has said it will use chips made by U.S. firm Transmeta Corp in a new line of PC notebooks, the second Japanese personal computer maker to adopt the power-efficient processor. In a statement released in the United States late on Monday, privately-held Transmeta said that Fujitsu will use its processor in two new notebooks due out in early November that will be equipped with mobile Internet capabilities and have a battery life of up to eight hours -- about double the standard length for most notebooks. Sony Corp (6758.T) announced in August that it will use Transmeta's microprocessor in some of its VAIO laptops. The Crusoe chip, unveiled by Transmeta in January, extends the battery life of mobile computers by using a hybrid of software and hardware, and has already been adopted by IBM (NYSE:IBM - news) and Gateway Inc's (NYSE:GTW - news) notebook PCs. Other Japanese PC makers are likely to adopt Transmeta technology. Hitachi Ltd. (6501.T) and NEC Corp. (6701.T) have developed laptop prototypes that use the Crusoe processors. Fujitsu shares were up about one percent at 2,695 yen in early Tuesday trade. Transmeta was founded in 1995 by former Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) hardware designer David Ditzel, Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) co-founder Paul Allen, financier George Soros and others. The company also hired Linus Torvalds (news - web sites), the celebrated creator of the Linux (news - web sites) operating system. Computer makers designing mobile Web-access devices are beginning to break away from the standard setup of chips supplied by Intel (NasdaqNM:INTL - news) and Microsoft's Windows operating system. They aim to replicate the surge in demand for wireless phones seen after the devices shrank and became more powerful.