Intel Capital invests in cloud, gaming and mobile companies
October 3, 2012
Grazed from Bit-Tech.net. Author: Gareth Halfacree.
Intel Capital, the chip giant’s venture capital arm, has announced its latest round of funding, investing in ten companies across the world and in doing so providing a glimpse at the technologies and markets the company sees as important to its future growth.
First, cloud computing. Having gone from being a buzzword used to make internet-connected servers that you never own where third-party companies have full access to all your private data to an accepted term for the likes of Gaikai’s remote-rendering gaming service, Intel is clearly predicting some serious growth in this region. Accordingly, it has sunk a wodge of change into cloud-based file storage and collaboration service Box – previously known as Box.net – and Bollywood video streaming service Hungama. For the enterprise market, the company has also provided funding to Tier 3, a US company specialising in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS.)…
Mobile is also looking like Intel’s next big market – as if the launch of numerous ARM-targeted low-power Atom system-on-chip designs wasn’t clue enough. Intel Capital’s latest batch of funding includes Brazilian mobile payment specialist PagPop, US-based Bluetooth-powered proximity platform ToothTag creator NewAer, and Chinese mobile advertising company UUCun. It’s the hardware companies that should be of most interest, however: money has been given to Jelli for software-defined radio technology and Nvidia partner FocalTech, a creator of digital signal processors for touch control and display driving – something almost certain to make it into Intel’s next round of mobile-centric SoC designs…
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