Cupertino,
Calif. – Apple has acquired
chipmaker Intrinsity and iPhone application developer Siri, according to
reports in The New York Times and Scobleizer.
An analyst pegged the purchase price
of Austin, Texas-based Intrinsity at $121 million for The Times.
The company’s
technology claims to produce faster processors that consume less energy.
A
filing with the Federal Trade Commission posted on Scobleizer confirms Apple’s
purchase of San Jose, Calif.-based Siri, the developer
of a virtual personal assistant application for the iPhone.
PaidContent noted
that Siri has raised $23.5 million in financing to date, since its inception as
a project at research institute SRI.
Related Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/technology/28apple.html
http://snipurl.com/vukeg
(Scobleizer)
http://snipurl.com/vukdv
(PaidContent)
