Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal at China Venture News

Intel Corporation's $200 million China Technology Fund has wasted little time making an undisclosed investment in three companies. Although industry analysts speculate that the investments were modest, the timing from a fund only established two months ago does reinforce Intel's support for Chinese-style entrepreneurship and underscores the VCs' attraction to the China market. According to Red Herring, Intel Capital has for more than seven years made investments in about 50 companies [...] Read More


Intel Capital Invests in China's Innovation at 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 at 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


EMC strikes global OEM deal with Intel at On Storage

EMC strikes global OEM deal with Intel "EMC Corp. announced Tuesday a worldwide OEM agreement with Intel Corp., focused on small and midsized businesses (SMBs) in overseas markets. The deal highlights EMC's eagerness to broaden its channel beyond North America and notably beyond relying too heavily on Dell Inc. - its No.1 channel partner to date." I'm not sure why, exactly, but there's something I like about EMC. I've never actually dealt [...] Read More


Intel: Free Ride is Over! at 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