Intel Capital and China Policy Roadmap China Venture News

With no Abatement in the gold rush of US VCs into China, I continue my conversation with author and researcher, Jonsson Yinya Li, on his observations in his new book, Investing in China: The Emerging Venture Capital Industry. Jonsson is an avowed daily finance media junkie, scouring everything he can find on the latest announced venture capital deals. With multinationals like Intel Capital and their new $200 million fund directed [...] Read More


Intel Capital Invests in China's Innovation China Venture News

Intel Corp.'s venture-capital arm sees greater innovation among the companies it examines for investment in China. According to the Street.com, Intel Capital has announced four new investments from its $200 million Technology Fund. The companies receiving investments are Campus Media Inc., Montage Technology Co. Ltd., Star Softcomm Pte Ltd. and Winking Entertainment Limited. Intel Capital has now invested in 12 Chinese companies since its US$200 million China Technology Fund was [...] Read More


Intel Capital Starts Second China Fund China Venture News

Intel Capital has put $500 million into a second venture capital fund focused on China technology start-ups, according to ZD Net Asia. The fund will focus on start-ups "doing work in areas such as wireless broadband, media, telecommunications, and clean technology." Intel plans to increase the size of the investment it makes in individual companies and to even become the lead investor in some cases. Intel's first fund invested in 28 [...] Read More


Intel Unveils New Roadmap The Mobile Technology Weblog

With all of the buzz around ETech, CeBIT etc., and the unveiling of the UMPC/Origami portable devices, it passed rather quietly last week that Intel announced some of its wireless "roadmap" in San Francisco. Among the announced items were: The next generation of Centrino mobile technology, code named Santa Rosa, with additional connectivity management and security and support for 802.11n. Santa Rosa is due to come to market in 2007. Greater focus [...] Read More


Intel: Free Ride is Over! The Search Engine Weblog

Say goodbye to freebies, free rides... News.com reports: After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop software, Intel says the free ride is over. Already, chipmakers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are delivering processors that have multiple brains, or cores, rather than single brains that run ever faster. The challenge is that most of today's software isn't built to handle that kind [...] Read More