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
TZero, ultrawideband chip co., searching for more capital amid competition
TZero Technologies, a Sunnyvale, Calif. developer of chips for so-called wireless ultrawideband technology that can transmit large data files such as video in the home, is on the prowl for $25 million in a third round of funding, according to VentureWire (subscription required).
The search for cash is not surprising, because TZero plays in an competitive field, and it isn’t certain how much demand there is for its products. The company has already raised a significant… 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
Cisco employee Victor Tsao on investment binge, backs Tzero
Tzero Technologies, a Sunnyvale start-up developing a chip to provide ultra wideband (UWB) for delivering video wirelessly throughout the home, has raised an undisclosed amount of money from Victor Tsao, a senior vice president of Cisco.
The investment is notable because Tsao is supposed to be looking for investments for Cisco, but this investment came from his own pocket. Tsao, a co-founder of wireless router company Linksys, had been retained by Cisco as an employee, after… Continue Reading