As a strategic investment in a new wireless technology, Motorola, Inc. through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, has made an equity investment in Amimon Inc., a Herzlia, Israel based fabless semiconductor company developing wireless high-definition interface (WHDI) technology.

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“We believe that Amimon’s WHDI technology is setting a new standard in wireless HDTV connectivity which nicely aligns with Motorola’s connected home strategy,” said Reese Schroeder, managing director, Motorola Ventures. “Our investment reflects our belief that Amimon’s solution is well positioned to offer a high quality wireless uncompressed HDTV link between video sources such as digital set-top and high-definition TVs.”

Amimon's WHDI technology enables wireless transmission of uncompressed high-definition video streams in the 5 GHz unlicensed band. It will enable applications such as wireless flat-panel TVs, wireless projectors, wireless high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) and wireless VGA repeaters (dongles).

“Motorola and Amimon share a common vision of facilitating connectivity between consumer electronics devices,” said Yoav Nissan-Cohen, chairman and CEO. “The investment from Motorola will fund our plan to set WHDI as a new industry standard for connecting high-definition video sources to displays wirelessly.”