About three years ago, Intel Corp. acquired Altera Corp. in a deal valued at about $16.7 billion. Since that time the company has integrated the field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) into its portfolio of datacenter and networking semiconductors and solutions.
Now, the company is expanding its FPGA portfolio with the acquisition of Omnitek, a provider of video and vision FPGA IP solutions. The technology will allow for customized high-performance vision and artificial intelligence inferencing capabilities on FPGAs across a range of end markets such as video conferencing, projection and display, medical vision systems, and more.
Omnitek has developed over 220 FPGA IP cores and software solutions for warp, image signal processing (ISP) and video connectivity that improves time-to-market for customers.
Intel said it is expanding to compete for the $8 billion market opportunity that programmable solutions afford. As some customers use FPGAs in video and visual-related applications in Intel’s cloud service for the enterprise and embedded space, Intel plans to use Omnitek’s devices to expand the opportunity for FPGA-based vision applications.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
