Intel Inside – literally
p2pnet.net News:- Intel has bought into Digital 5, Staccato Communications, Trymedia Systems and Wisair Ltd to help solve key interoperability, bandwidth and distribution issues for the digital home, says Intel Capital president John Miner.
Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain, Miner said the $200 million Intel Digital Home Fund investments, "support Intel’s initiatives to enable people to enjoy digital content – including music, games, photos and video – on multiple devices in the home and beyond.".
Digital 5, based in Lawrenceville, NJ, provides networking technology to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers to enable wireless and wired sharing of music and video content among networked consumer electronics devices.
Staccato Communications is a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, California, developing UWB technology solutions. Staccato is developing of the first all-CMOS, single-chip UWB silicon to enable low-cost, high data rate wireless connectivity for emerging wireless USB and wireless 1394 applications.
San Francisco’s Trymedia System technologies and services are used by content developers and publishers to distribute PC games and other software. With an engineering team based in Spain, it also operates the world’s largest business-to-business marketplace for downloadable games and software.
Wisair, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, develops solutions based on UWB technology for high performance wireless communication. The company’s chipset enables the implementation of low-cost, low-power and high bit-rate communication modules and system solutions for the fast emerging home and office connectivity market. Wisair recently announced the industry’s first multi-band OFDM-compliant UWB radio frequency transceiver chip.
