Perceptive Pixel's large-scale, multi-touch application and components technological innovation will discover new cooperation and efficiency circumstances.
Microsoft Corp. and Intelligent Pixel Inc. (PPI) today declared that they have joined into a specified contract under which Microsoft will acquire PPI, a identified head in research, development and development of large-scale, multi-touch display alternatives.
"The getting PPI allows us to sketch on our contrasting strong points, and we're thrilled to speed up this market progress," said Kurt DelBene, chief executive, Workplace Department for Microsoft. "PPI's huge contact shows, when along with components from our OEMs, will become highly effective Windows 8-based PCs and open new opportunities for efficiency and cooperation."
Founded in 2006 by Mark Han, a well known innovator in multi-touch technological innovation, PPI delivered its first multi-touch work station and huge wall alternatives in early 2007. In 2008 its technological innovation obtained extensive identification for changing the way CNN and other tv stations protected the 2008 U.S. presidential selection. Last year the Smithsonian granted the company the Nationwide Style Prize in the first type of Connections Style. PPI's trademarked systems are used across a wide range of sectors such as government, immunity, transmitted, energy discovery, technological innovation and college, and its skills in both application and components will give rise to success in wide circumstances such as cooperation, events and demonstrations.
"We are really thrilled to be working together on our common interest to build systems that enable people to work together and connect," Han said. "By becoming a member of Microsoft, we will be able to take advantage of the remarkable strength of the Microsoft Workplace Department, firmly interoperate with its products, and provide this technological innovation to a very wide set of customers."
Terms of the deal were not revealed. The purchase is subject to traditional ending conditions, such as regulating acceptance.