Smart Home (connected home, home networking) News

Intellon Releases Second-Generation HomePlug® AV Powerline Communications Chip
Jul 10, 2007 – Intellon has announced that it has released the INT6300, the world's first second-generation HomePlug AV powerline communications (PLC) IC.
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart Home

IGRS and Metalink Wireless HDTV Platform for China TV Vendors
Jul 9, 2007 – IGRS, the Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing working group, and Metalink (NASDAQ: MTLK) have announced that they are working together to provide an advanced High Definition (HD) TV Decoder Platform for wireless home networks.
News categories: China, Digital TV, Gateway, IPTV, Router, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

Hisense and Metalink 802.11n Multimedia Home Networking for China
Jul 9, 2007 – Hisense and Metalink (NASDAQ: MTLK) have announced their collaboration to offer innovative and cost-effective solutions for delivering high-definition (HD) multimedia over wireless home networks.
News categories: ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, Router, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

SiBEAM Reveals 60GHz Wireless Semiconductor Technology
Jun 27, 2007 – SiBEAM has announced that they are the first to break the barriers of 60 GHz technology with the development of working 60 GHz chipsets for non-line-of-sight applications, built using standard CMOS manufacturing techniques.
News categories: SiBEAM, WirelessHD, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Sumitomo Chooses Intellon HomePlug for In-Home IPTV Services
Jun 26, 2007 – Intellon has announced that Sumitomo Electric Industries has chosen Intellon’s HomePlug-based INT6000 IC to enable in-home distribution of KDDI’s IPTV services in Japan. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Mobilygen Announces the Industry's Broadest Range of H.264 HD Codec ICs
Jun 25, 2007 – Mobilygen has announced the en-ViE platform enabling the creation, playback and distribution of HD H.264 video for connected home, mobile, and surveillance applications.
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart Home

DMX Launches WinCE-based Digital Video Middleware Client Release
Jun 19, 2007 – DMX Technologies has announced the launch of Microsoft Windows CE based Vision TV client by it subsidiary, BEE MediaSoft. Vision TV is a TV middleware developed by BEE and runs on Windows CE based set-top boxes.
News categories: BEE MediaSoft, DMX Technologies, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

HGI defines future of the home gateway
Jun 2, 2007 – The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) today identified the key operator requirements driving future development of Home Gateways with the commencement of work on its third specification document. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Smart Home

Vivace And IGRS Engineering Lab To Develop IGRS-Compliant Multimedia Chips, Vivace Joins IGRS Home Networking Standards Effort
May 29, 2007 – Vivace Semiconductor has announced it has signed an agreement with the IGRS Engineering Lab, Ltd. to jointly develop reference designs based on Vivace's chips that can be used to develop products that are compliant with the new home networking standard.
News categories: IGRS, Vivace Semiconductor, China, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Tablet