ICs (Integrated Circuits), Chips, SoCs, Semiconductor Products News

Realtek Announces Digital Media Processor with Hardware HD Decoder
Sep 9, 2009 – Realtek (Taiwan: 2379.TW) has announced its third generation Digital Media Processor (DMP), the RTD1073, for the consumer electronics market. The RTD1073 provides a hardware decoder for all mainstream HD AV formats.
News categories: Realtek, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

Analog Devices Unveils Multi-Standard Terrestrial Mobile TV RF Tuners
Sep 9, 2009 – Analog Devices (NYSE:ADI) has extended its mobile television RF product family. Compatible with global terrestrial mobile TV standards, ADI's ADMTV803 and ADMTV804 RF tuners consume 60% less power and are 50% smaller than competing tuners.
News categories: Analog Devices, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, ISDB-T, Mobile, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Broadcom Announces HD Satellite Set-Top Box SoC with Integrated MoCA®
Sep 8, 2009 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced new single-chip, multi-format high definition (HD) satellite set-top box (STB) solutions featuring an integrated Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA®) 1.1 core.
News categories: Broadcom, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, ICs, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Broadcom announces HD cable set-top box SoC with integrated Euro/DOCSIS
Sep 8, 2009 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced new single-chip, multi-format high definition (HD) DOCSIS® 2.0/EuroDOCSIS™ 2.0 (Euro/DOCSIS 2.0) compatible set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC).
News categories: Broadcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DOCSIS, DVR, IBCShow, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Siano Unveils Newest Multi-Standard Mobile TV Chip
Sep 8, 2009 – Siano Mobile Silicon has announced the launch of a new multi- Standard mobile TV receiver chip, the SMS1230. The SMS1230 supports the major Global broadcast mobile TV standards of DVB-T, T-DMB, and ISDB-T plus digital radio (DAB/+) and FM Radio.
News categories: Siano Mobile, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor

NXP announces world's first fully integrated 45nm set-top box SoC platform
Sep 4, 2009 – NXP Semiconductors has unveiled a new family of highly integrated system-on-chip products enabling a complete range of high-performance solutions for mainstream HD DVRs and set-top box platforms in global satellite, cable and IPTV networks.
News categories: NXP, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, IPTV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Marvell Debuts Family of Single Chip Hybrid Demodulators for IDTVs
Sep 3, 2009 – Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) has announced the Marvell® 88DE80xx family of hybrid demodulators. The Marvell 88DE8020 and 88DE8025 are the first in a family of solutions that Marvell is developing for worldwide TV Radio Frequency (RF) sub-systems.
News categories: Marvell, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, IFABerlin, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

ViXS releases new HD Video Processor SoC: XCodeHD™ 3390
Sep 2, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced the availability of a new High Performance Transcoder/Encoder/Decoder System on a Chip (SoC) product, the XCodeHD™ 3390, an enhanced functionality follow-on IC to the highly successful XCode® 3290.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Digital TV, DVR, Home Server, ICs, Optical Disc Recorder, Peripherals / Accessories, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV

NXP Launches New Smart Card Reader for Growing pay-TV Market
Aug 26, 2009 – NXP Semiconductors has launched its latest smart card interface - the TDA8034 - an NDS and EMV 4.2 compliant, cost-optimized solution for the pay-TV market. The TDA8034 supports all three levels of smart card classes defined by the ISO7816 standard.
News categories: NXP, CAM, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box