​AMD announce their acquisition of intellectual property (IP) and key engineering talent from Nitero.

Nitero has designed a phased-array beamforming millimeter wave chip to address the challenges facing wireless VR and AR. Using high-performance 60 GHz wireless, this technology has the potential to enable multi-gigabit transmit performance with low latency in room-scale VR environments.

The beamforming characteristics solve the requirement for line-of-sight associated with traditional high-frequency mm-wave systems, potentially eliminating wired VR headsets and enabling users to become more easily immersed in virtual and augmented worlds.

What this all means is that AMD is looking to dive in the VR field, and they are trying to go wireless – unlike most current VR and AR offerings available. Looks like Nitero has the tech.

“Unwieldly headset cables remain a significant barrier to drive widespread adoption of VR,” said Mark Papermaster, AMD chief technology officer and senior vice president. “Our newly acquired wireless VR technology is focused on solving this challenge.”

Nitero co-founder and CEO Pat Kelly joined AMD as corporate vice president, Wireless IP. Details of the transaction has not been disclosed.