Intel announced strategic investments in four start-ups developing technologies for the digital home:
- Digital 5 Inc., a provider of consumer electronics networking technology. The Lawrenceville, New Jersey-based company offers software that enables wireless and wired sharing of music and video content among networked consumer electronics devices.
- Staccato Communications Inc., an ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless solutions developer. The San Diego-based company is developing all-CMOS, single-chip UWB silicon to enable low-cost, high data rate wireless connectivity for emerging wireless USB and wireless 1394 applications.
- Trymedia Systems Inc., a secure distribution technology and services provider. The San Francisco company, with an engineering team based in Spain, also operates the world's largest business-to-business marketplace for downloadable games and software, through which major portals and other high-traffic destinations make a catalog of Trymedia Systems' ActiveMARK-enabled games and software available to consumers around the world.
- Wisair Ltd., a UWB wireless chipset and solutions company. The Tel Aviv, Israel based company recently announced the industry's first multi-band OFDM-compliant UWB radio frequency transceiver chip.
