October 22 morning, according to foreign media reports, Intel will OpenFeint mobile gaming platform investment of 300 million U.S. dollars.
On Thursday, the company responsible for Intel Capital, the investment sector (Intel Capital) said it would invest mobile gaming platform OpenFeint. The platform allows developers to add real-time chat applications such as social networking features.
Lisa Lambert, vice president of Intel Capital (Lisa Lambert) said the company is working “to the platform as the core, to create a software ecosystem. This is Intel important part of overall strategy.”
“We will no longer focus only on PC.” Lambert said, “We will consider the entire system from the back-end support to the embedded device platform for everything.”
The total investment sum amounts to 300 million U.S. dollars. Earlier this year, OpenFeint has obtained Ninetowns $ 5,000,000 investment. “We believe that online games are on the phone one of the fastest growing business areas.” Lambert said, “We can provide them Intel’s microprocessors.”
This investment once again that the mobile phone market is rapidly becoming the most popular gaming device. Earlier this month, the Japanese social gaming company DeNA to 400 million U.S. dollars to buy the iPhone game developer Ngmoco.
OpenFeint game platform allows players to add friends, challenge each other to compare scores of high and low, and even chat during the game. The company said it currently has 45 million mobile gamers in the use of its services, the number of approximately 3,400 gaming platforms, including the popular game “Fruit Ninja” (Fruit Ninja) and so on.
Recently, OpenFeint platform to support Android mobile operating system, start the game, so that different systems and players can chat with each other challenges.Apple also offers its own mobile gaming platform GameCenter, but only iOS equipment. OpenFeint said its system to connect iOS and Android.
OpenFeint chairman Peter Reland (Peter Relan) said the newly acquired company will use the funds to expand its data center. The center uses Intel chips. In addition, the Reland also said that funds will be used to OpenFeintX. Developers can use this tool to the sale of virtual items.
“Imagine: you have a Mac, but I have a PC. We can not play together on the Facebook fun farm (Farmville). Users can not tolerate this situation. We want to provide a social platform across systems.”
August of this year, Intel nearly $ 8,000,000,000 to buy the security software maker McAfee; Later, the acquisition of Infineon’s wireless chip division. These chips are used in notebook computers and iPhone and other smart phones.
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