Omnitek

Omnitek — the British company founded in 1998 specializing in development of programmable gate arrays (FPGA). By April, 2019 the startup created about 220 different products most of which part belongs to a streaming video. Omnitek technologies found application in the systems of a video conferencing, a projection equipment and devices for medical visualization.

History

2019: Intel purchased Omnitek

On April 16, 2019 Intel announced Omnitek acquisition, but the cost of the transaction did not begin to open. After accomplishment of all formalities the staff of the British company in the amount of 40 people will join the American processor giant.

Developments of Omnitek will add FPGA business Intel. The buyer is going to use the Omnitek technologies connected with machine vision, artificial intelligence and processing of a streaming video in the programmable arrays.

Intel purchased the developer of programmable chips for video processing

Against the background of stagnation of the market of Intel personal computers more and more attention gives to alternative products which FPGA treat. Their development is conducted within division of Programmable Solutions Group which was created based on the Altera company purchased for $16.7 billion in 2016. It is known that Altera and Omnitek cooperated earlier therefore integration of technologies of the British company with products of Intel should become simpler.

By estimates of Intel which are given in the press release devoted to merger of Omnitek the volume of the world market of programmable semiconductor solutions is $8 billion, and all industry of chips — $300 billion.

FPGA devices play more and more important role, often supplementing other architecture of processing, and Intel is in the center of this revolution — the CEO of Omnitek Roger Fawcett said.

Among important activities of Omnitek the Intel company notes development of DSP cores for acceleration of machine learning (neural networks) and for artificial intelligence in the field of decision making.^[1]

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