If a dinosaur runs into your living room, try not to flinch! This will probably be the “wow” effect of the screens that Visual Semiconductor wants to bring to market with a TV manufacturer. Its technology consists of Asic chips, i.e. “Application-Specific Integrated Circuit,” tailor-made for a very specific task, unlike generic chips such as processors (CPU) or graphics cards (GPU) that perform a wide range of operations.

Mathu Rajan’s young American company estimates that two billion various and sundry devices could be fitted with its chips every year, which it will have to have manufactured by TSMC or a giant of its type, to enable a true immersive experience without the need for glasses, a challenge that giants like Google have been stumbling over for years with products like Google Glass.

Incergo SA, a Luxembourg holding company, has announced that it is to acquire Visual Semiconductor, Inc (VSI), for €53m, via a bond loan which should be converted into shares at €2.00 each subject to regulatory approvals. This is the business model devised by Darren Taylor, owner of Taylor Made Franchising, which has been buying up franchises since 2006 to help them grow. Among them are StumpBusters, PVC Vendo, Wilkins Chimney Sweep, Chemex, Cookerbura, Mister Tacho, Women In Business Network (WIBN), Broadway Wine Company and Wagging Tails.

It’s not hard to imagine the American technology being sold as a white label or for the benefit of smaller appliance manufacturers than the global giants.

This article in French.