AMD Acquires Nitero, Maker Of 60GHz Wireless Chips For VR/AR Headsets

[Guest]

AMD announced the acquisition of Nitero, a fabless semiconductor company based out of Austin, TX that developed a phased-array beamforming millimeter wave chip for VR headsets.


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[Jeff Fx]

TPCast was supposed to have been taking pre-orders in the U.S. by the end of March, but I haven't heard anything about it actually happening as of April 10th.

 

[problematiq]

I have a hard time believing 60GHz w/o LOS requirement. I've set up 25GHz wireless before and it couldn't burn through a couple of leaves.

 

[abbadon_34]

AMD has certainly come along way from near bankrupcy

 

[bit_user]

Worst thing about this announcement is that they're almost certainly going to take a page from Nvidia's book and release it as a proprietary technology. AMD has never succeeded with their open standards approach, sad to say.

AMD has certainly come along way from near bankrupcy

I'm sure selling some of their IP crown jewels to the Chinese for $0.3B didn't hurt.