Does Google Have a “Secret” Weapon in Apple Battle with Agnilux?
Google continues down its path of acquisitions, as it has now scooped up the mysterious tech startup Agnilux. It’s mysterious because there is very little information about it on the web, and even publications like the New York Times have had a hard time uncovering much information about it. It has been revealed, however, that Agnilux was founded by former employees of P.A. Semi, the chip manufacturer that Apple acquired a couple years ago, which produced chips for the iPhone and iPad. Some of P.A. Semi stayed with Apple, and others went off on their own and formed Agnilux, as the story goes. This Google/Apple competition story just gets more and more interesting. Nobody knows exactly what Google’s plan is with Agnilux, or even what Agnilux does exactly, although the New York Times recently got word from a former P.A. Semi employee that Agnilux was working on “some kind of server, and that the company has a partnership with Cisco.” Agnilux has people who have worked at P.A. Semi, Apple, Cisco, IBM, TiVo, Real Networks, Boeing, and various other tech companies, according to varioud LinkedIn profiles listed under the company.
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