Intel Chooses Taifatech as Wireless Display Tech Partner

Taipei, Nov. 29, 2010 (CENS)--Intel Capital, which is owned by chipmaker Intel Corp., recently chose Taifatech Inc. of Taiwan to receive its funding for the development of wireless display (WiDi) technology, which is vigorously promoted by Intel for its capability of wirelessly beaming digital contents on computers to televisions or big-screen displays.

The investment is among the 18 cases in 11 economies into which the venture capital fund recently funneled a total of US$77 million to boost smart information-communications applications that are crucial to Intel Atom platform. The applications include cloud computing, smart TV, smart phone, wireless broadband network, tablet PC and servers.

According to Intel Capital President Arvind Sodhani, these investments will help boost next-generation computing capability that is crucial to creating a compute continuum environment.

Taifatech was founded in 2002 as a chip design house to specialize in solutions to system-on-chip designs. The company's chips are ideal for video communications applications such as smart household appliances, webcam-controlled security network, Internet access and industrial control system.

Intel is working with Lenovo, HP, Dell, Acer and Austek to develop computers embedded with wireless display technology. The camp will introduce the computers sometime in 2011.

Intel is also teaming up with Realtek Semiconductor, another Taiwanese design house, on development of WiDi module supporting dual band concurrent WLAN, as part of its efforts to bolster the WiDi market.