Staccato, Artimi merge to keep UWB efforts alive
Ultra-wideband chip makers Staccato Communications and Artimi announced that they have merged, adopting the name of the former. The new entity also received $20 million in new equity funding, allowing it to refocus its energies on the top products from both companies.
San Diego-based Staccato plans to roll out new products utilizing both its existing chip technology and Artimi’s wireless USB offerings, the company says. It’s questionable whether the combined forces will fare any better than… Continue Reading
Amimon’s chip: First to serve HD video across whole home
Silicon Valley chip company Amimon has released what it says is the first ever chip that serves high-definition uncompressed video wirelessly across the whole home.
That’s a bold claim, but could be true. The young Santa Clara, Calif. company’s chips stream HD video up to 150 feet, at an effective 250 to 800 megabits per second, which matches the capacity of the best of the numerous competing chip makers, many of them using Ultrawideband technology. (Amimon… Continue Reading
Artimi to unveil ultra-wideband this year, raises $5M
Artimi, a company making ultra-wideband technology, which lets you speed up the transfer of video or other files by more than 100 times, has raised more money to help it deliver on that promise.
The Santa Clara, Calif. company has raised $5 million from Khosla Ventures, to be announced tomorrow (Wednesday), and plans to ship its product this year.
At first, Artimi chips will be available via a plug-in device for wireless USB. You plug in a… Continue Reading
Ultrawideband player Artimi raises $26.5 million
Artimi has just secured raised $26.5 million in funding– a significant amount of cash for a company active in the ultrawideband/wireless USB area.
It is early days for this technology and so there is a race on to be first to market.
UltrawideBand can transmit up to a whopping 500 megabits of data a second — roughly 10 times today’s Wi-Fi speeds. One player, Tzero recently raised $16.5 million and then recently $22 million more. However,… Continue Reading