Qualcomm has today announced its intentions to acquire “certain assets” from GestureTek, a long-standing developer of gesture recognition technology. GestureTek has lurked in the mobile platform before, but now it looks like it’ll be more aggressively touching devices with Qualcomm silicon.

It’s a strange move, indeed, but it could be one that signals a shift in the way chip makers are looking out for themselves. OEMs have long tried to skin their Android devices in a way that’ll breed loyalty to a brand (rather than an OS), but loyalty to a CPU? According to Qually, the buy will give it access to “key engineering resources,” and while GestureTek will maintain “other assets in continuation of its gesture-controlled public display and digital signage business,” we suspect the consumer-facing aspects will soon have a new master.

We’re told that the tech will be woven into current and next-gen Snapdragon processors, but only time will tell what sort of seamless wizardry will result.

SOURCE via Qualcomm