Intel Capital, Intel Corp’s global investment and mergers-and-acquisitions arm, yesterday announced it would invest a total of US$40 million in 10 Asian companies, including two based in Taiwan, as it looks to take advantage of the rapid spread of technological innovation throughout the region.
The plan calls for eight new investments in companies from China, India, Japan and South Korea, as well as two planned investments in Taiwanese firms, Intel said in a statement.
The investments will be diversified across various sectors, ranging from semiconductor design and manufacturing, green technologies and software development to security, social gaming and cloud computing.
Details of each investment, including the amount to be invested, were not disclosed in the statement.
The two Taiwanese firms Intel plans to invest in are Insyde Software Corp (系微) and SNSplus Inc (好玩家).
Insyde, a PC BIOS (basic input/output system) provider, is a provider of firmware and software engineering services for makers of mobile devices, notebook computers, servers and embedded systems.
SNSplus is a publisher and distributor of social-networking games with a focus on the Asian market. Its publishing platform provides servers, bandwidth, customer support and localization services to bring games to social network sites such as Facebook.
The other eight companies eyed in the investment plan are Japan’s G-cluster Global Corp and OneBe Inc, India’s Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd and TELiBrahma Convergent Communications Pvt Ltd, South Korea’s Neosem Inc, as well as China’s Makepolo.com Co (馬可波羅), Miartech (Shanghai) Inc (彌亞微) and Hong Kong’s Outblaze Ventures Holdings Ltd.
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