Intel last year bid billions trying to get the Nortel patents. Thursday
RealNetworks said Intel was paying it $120 million cash for 190 "foundational
media" patents, 170 patent applications and next-generation video codec
software good for stuff like streaming.
The IP is apparently supposed to brace Intel's Ultrabook, smartphone, tablet
and digital media interests.
Intel's also picking up Real's video codec engineering team.
Real retains "certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and
future products."
RealNetworks and Intel signed an MOU to collaborate on future support and
development of the next-generation video codec software and related products.
Real is trying to return to profitability.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Electronics, the daily
source of essential business and technical information for the electronics
industry's decision makers, has announced the addition of "From Social Media
to Social Learning", a special evening event created for marketing and PR
leaders in the electronics industry, which will take place on February 1st
from 5pm – 6pm in Room 211 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
DesignCon 2012, which will be held in Santa Clara, Calif., January 30 through
February 2, , will provide 100+ sessions as part of the 14 tracks that... (more)
Intel is buying QLogic's InfiniBand operation for its supercomputer
clustering charms.
The semiconductor giant is spending $125 million cash on the product line and
certain unidentified assets and expects to hire a "significant" number of
QLogic people to enhance its networking portfolio, provide a scalable HPC
fabric technology, and support Intel's goal of innovating on fabric
architectures to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by 2018.
ExaFLOP/s is a quintillion computer operations per second, a hundred times
faster than today's supercomputers. In 2019 the top 100 supercomputers are... (more)
Intel has named Brian Krzanich COO, the job CEO Paul Otellini got three years
before being named chief executive.
Otellini's got to retire in four years when he turns 65 so Krzanich, 51, is
being perceived as Otellini's new heir apparent, replacing Sean Maloney, who
had a stroke two years ago and is now chairman of Intel China. Patrick
Gelsinger took himself out of the running in 2009 when he moved to EMC, where
he will probably become CEO someday.
Krzanich, who will report to Otellini, is responsible for worldwide
manufacturing, the soul of Intel. As COO he will continue to over... (more)
Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, on Monday
announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group
Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round. Weather II was
advised by Accelero Capital, an investment and management group. Both Weather
II and Accelero focus on telecommunication and related media and technology
companies that clearly hold promise in the rapidly and profoundly changing
telecom and enterprise markets worldwide.
Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom leader Telefónica, is
also parti... (more)
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