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Short Take: HP buys Vital Technology

Hewlett-Packard announced that it has signed an agreement to buy Vital Technology, a Singapore-based developer of machine-vision inspection systems for the printed circuit-board assembly and integrated-circuit (IC) packaging industries. Effective immediately, Vital Technology becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of HP, to be publicly known as the HP Singapore Vision Operation. Operations will remain based in Singapore. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

announced that it has signed an agreement to buy Vital Technology, a Singapore-based developer of machine-vision inspection systems for the printed circuit-board assembly and integrated-circuit (IC) packaging industries. Effective immediately, Vital Technology becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of HP, to be publicly known as the HP Singapore Vision Operation. Operations will remain based in Singapore. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.