Lemoptix SA has been acquired by Intel Corporation

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26.03.2015

In January Intel has bought Composyt Light Labs. Now Intel has acquired a second EPFL spin-off.

The transaction was completed on March 17th 2015. Financial details were not disclosed. In an announcement on the website the four founders, Nicolas Abele, Faouzi Khechana, Lucio Kilcher and Marco Boella and the whole Lemoptix team thank all of their partners, investors and supporters who contributed to the development of the company.

Lemoptix enables next generation mobile human/machine interaction and augmented reality with its patented MEMS laser scanning micro projection technology and solutions. Applications of Lemoptix technology range from automotive head up displays (HUD) to embedded projectors in smartphones and low power wearable displays and 3D sensing. Lemoptix has developed multidisciplinary and world-leading expertise in MEMS-mirror modelling, design and fabrication; system and module development, including optical and electronics subsystems.

In May 2014 smartglasses that were co-developed with Composyst Light Labs, a company that was acquired by Intel in January 2015, were shown at Augmented World Expo (AWE) Conference in California. The smartglasses, included a direct retina projection and a patented holographic combiner.

Intel has projects with other Swiss start-ups too. The company cooperates with Faceshift and Dacuda.

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