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

Sigma Designs Announces CoAir, the World's First Ultrawideband chipset with integrated Wireless, Coax and Gigabit Ethernet for High Speed Whole Home Networking
Jun 24, 2008 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has announced CoAir™, the industry's first Ultrawideband (UWB) and WiMedia™ standard-based chipset with combined wireless, coax and Ethernet capabilities.
News categories: Sigma Designs, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart Home

ANADIGICS Launches Fully Integrated 1 GHz Tuner for Set-Top Boxes
Jun 23, 2008 – ANADIGICS (Nasdaq: ANAD) has announced the launch of the AIT1032, a fully integrated, 1 GHz tuner that enables crystal-clear video in CATV set-top boxes, DVRs, PC TV tuner cards, and other tuner-on-board applications.
News categories: ANADIGICS, Cable TV, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

W&W Communications Announces its Taos Series of H.264 ASICs for Wireless HDMI, Video Surveillance and Video Conferencing Applications
Jun 20, 2008 – W&W Communications has announced its Taos series of ASICs, consisting of the WW108, WW602 and WW508 single chip H.264 video codecs.
News categories: W&W Communications, Digital TV, Home Server, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Infineon Introduces World's First 1.8V Broadband Low Noise Amplifier to Support Portable TV and Mobile TV Systems
Jun 17, 2008 – Infineon (FSE/NYSE: IFX) has announced the availability of the company's new BGA728L7 low noise amplifier (LNA), one of the industry's smallest broadband LNAs for portable and mobile TV applications.
News categories: Infineon, ICs, Mobile, Portable, Semiconductor

JVC Develops Dual Codec Compatible HD Signal Processing LSI for Camcorders
Jun 9, 2008 – JVC has become the first in the industry to develop a 'Dual Codec Compatible HD Signal Processing LSI for Camcorders' that supports two high-definition signal compression formats (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-2).
News categories: JVC, Camcorder, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor

Xceive Launches XC800 COFDM Digital Demodulator with Exclusive Digital Tuner Interface
Jun 2, 2008 – Xceive has unveiled the XC800 COFDM demodulator. Featuring Xceive's innovative direct digital interface (XDDI), the XC800 enables tight integration with the company's hybrid silicon tuners to provide a highly-optimized silicon front-end solution.
News categories: Xceive, Digital TV, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Industry's Lowest-Power Full HD H.264 Codecs With the Broadest Feature Set Unveiled by Qpixel
Jun 1, 2008 – Qpixel Technology has unveiled, at Computex, its High Definition (HD) QL303 and QL305 codecs, the latest members of its industry-leading, low-power, H.264 codec family.
News categories: Qpixel, Camcorder, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Portable, Semiconductor

Mirics develops global solution for TV on a PC utilizing software demodulation
May 28, 2008 – Mirics Semiconductor has announced the Mirics FlexiTV™ broadcast receiver, a complete RF, host interface and software demodulation solution enabling the reception of analog and digital TV to become a standard feature on all notebook PCs.
News categories: Mirics, ATSC 3, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Freescale unveils next-generation i.MX processor for portable multimedia devices
May 27, 2008 – Freescale Semiconductor has introduced the i.MX37 multimedia applications processor - a highly advanced device for portable media player (PMP), mobile Internet and portable GPS navigation (PND) markets.
News categories: Freescale, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Tablet