Apple in talks to buy Israel's PrimeSense: report

Apple is in early negotiations to buy Israel-based PrimeSense, a developer of chips that enable three-dimensional machine vision, for $280 million, the Calcalist new website said on Tuesday.

 

A delegation of Apple engineering executives visited PrimeSense in early July, Calcalist said.

 

Officials at PrimeSense were not immediately available for comment.

 

PrimeSense has raised $85 million from Israel and U.S. venture capital funds, Calcalist noted.

 

PrimeSense's sensing technology, which gives digital devices the ability to observe a scene in three dimensions, was used to help power Microsoft's Xbox Kinect.  — Reuters