Motorola Investing in WHDI Wireless Technology

Motorola today announced that it has made an equity investment in AMIMON Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductor technology for wireless transmission of high-definition (HD) video. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Some "inside details" include:

• Sanyo is producing an HD projector with WHDI integrated into it

• Pixelworks and Amimon are developing a joint reference design

Reese Schroeder, managing director, Motorola Ventures stated “We believe that AMIMON’s WHDI™ Technology is setting a new standard in wireless HDTV connectivity which nicely aligns with Motorola’s connected home strategy.” Motorola's investment obviously reflects a belief that AMIMON’s particular solution is well positioned to offer a high quality wireless uncompressed HDTV link between video sources such as digital set-top and high-definition TVs.

AMIMON's wireless high-definition interface (WHDI) technology enables wireless transmission of uncompressed high-definition video streams in the 5GHz unlicensed band. WHDI enables applications such as wireless flat-panel TVs, wireless projectors, wireless HDMI and wireless VGA repeaters (dongles).

WHDI's aim is to release technology (and eventually a standard) that would allow uncompressed high definition video and audio to be transmitted up to 150 feet from a source to a display. To ensure compatibility, the idea is to do the transfer uncompressed and avoid any need for redundant DRM or other encryption requirements. Sanyo demonstrated a prototype wireless projector using WHDI at the 2007 CES show.

More information is available at www.AMIMON.com and www.Motorola.com.