Social media giant ByteDance, owner of popular short video apps TikTok and Douyin, has bought a stake in memory chip developer InnoStar Semiconductor to bolster production at virtual reality (VR) unit Pico, in a move to overcome US tech restrictions and take on Apple’s mixed-reality Vision Pro headset.
Picoheart, a Singapore-based affiliate of ByteDance, earlier this month invested an undisclosed amount to acquire a 9.5 per cent shareholding in state-backed InnoStar, which is headquartered in Shanghai, according to data from company registry information provider Qichacha. That investment was made “in hopes of utilising the memory chips produced by InnoStar in Pico’s VR headsets”, a representative of Beijing-based ByteDance said on Thursday. The deal has made ByteDance the third-largest shareholder of InnoStar, behind the 28.8 per cent stake of Hong Kong-incorporated Memris Asia Pacific and 26.3 per cent interest of Shanghai Alliance Investment, owned by the Shanghai municipal government, according to company records. Source: South China Morning Post
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