Amimon makes headway with high-speed home video networking
Israeli chip maker Amimon is announcing today it has sold more than 100,000 chip sets that let set-top boxes and other devices transfer data to a TV set without wires.
The company says it has generated millions of dollars in sales in 2008. That’s no small accomplishment, considering the existence of competing technologies and considerable consumer confusion about the best way to send video over a wireless network in the home.
Herzlia, Israel-based Amimon uses the 5-gigahertz… Continue Reading
Panasonic and Samsung invest in SiBEAM to promote WirelessHD
In an endorsement for wireless video networking, Panasonic and Samsung said today they have invested an undisclosed amount into SiBEAM, the maker of high-speed networking chips.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiBEAM makes WirelessHD chips that can wirelessly transfer video from one device to another in a living room. The SiBEAM chip sets operate in the 60 gigahertz band of the wireless spectrum. It’s difficult to make radio chips that operate at that frequency, but there is very little… Continue Reading
Will ultra-wideband high-speed wireless technology ever find its market?
Last week, the wireless chip startup WiQuest shut its doors after its VC backers gave up on the maker of ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless chips. The closure of the firm with 120 employees and $54 million in funding raises a question about the nascent UWB technology, which provides high-speed data wireless links over a short distance. But supporters of the technology say one company’s failure won’t sink the industry.
For years, UWB technology has been a solution… Continue Reading
Expect to see start-ups and VCs hit standoff over valuations
When the stock market goes into the dumps, it takes a while for the effects to trickle down to start-ups. That’s because start-ups are often are working away on a project that’s isolated from the larger market — and if they’re lucky, they have money from venture capitalists.
For the start-ups with no angel or VC backing, forget about raising money. They’re going to have trouble immediately. VCs are paying too much attention to their existing… Continue Reading
SiBEAM delivers high-definition wireless adapters this year, raises $40M
SiBEAM, a company developing technology to stream high definition video more quickly than any existing technology, has raised $40 million in third round of funding.
The financing was led by New Enterprise Associates. The other firms backing up SiBEAM are Foundation Capital and U.S. Venture Partners.
SiBEAM, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is developing a technology called WirelessHD. The technology helps you move rich, high-definition data like video wirelessly from one gadget to another, such as from your portable… 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
SiBeam, joins gang offering wireless high-def video transfer
(Updated to correct reference to Artimi’s total funding)
SiBeam, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, Calif. company, has emerged from secrecy with a chip it says transfers uncompressed high-definition video to an HDTV from a set-top box or other source.
Transferring high-definition video wirelessly is something several companies are offering — all of them in various stages of development and each using different technology. This could permanently remove wires from your home. Few of the companies offer the… Continue Reading