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

Horizon Semiconductors Fuels the Broadcast Market With Native 1080/60p High Definition Professional Encoder IC
Jan 7, 2008 – Horizon Semiconductors has announced the immediate availability of a multi-standard native 1080/60p professional encoder IC for the Cable, Satellite, Telco, Terrestrial and Mobile triple/quad-play broadcast markets.
News categories: Horizon Semiconductors, Cable TV, CES2025, Content Distribution, Digital TV, ICs, IPTV, Mobile, Satellite, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

MaxLinear Debuts Tuner IC Aimed at Digital TV Cutover Products
Jan 7, 2008 – MaxLinear has announced the MxL5007T, a TV tuner IC developed for low-cost converter, set top box (STB) and other TV systems currently being designed for the FCC-mandated 2009 digital television cutover.
News categories: MaxLinear, ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

Legend Silicon Enters Global Market for Digital Television
Jan 7, 2008 – Legend Silicon has announced that it has entered the global market for digital television with commercially deployed silicon solutions for fixed and mobile digital TV in China.
News categories: Legend Silicon, China, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Broadcom Announces Industry's Most Advanced High Definition AVC Encoder/Transcoder that Transforms the PC into a Multimedia Server
Jan 7, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced the industry's most advanced high definition (HD) AVC/MPEG encoder/transcoder that enables the personal computer to function as a multimedia gateway in the connected home.
News categories: Broadcom, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Streaming

Ambarella Introduces Third-Generation SoC for HD Camcorders with Progressive Video
Jan 7, 2008 – Ambarella has announced its third-generation low-power A3 System-on-a-Chip (SoC). The A3 is targeted at high-definition (HD) camcorders using H.264/AVC compression technology.
News categories: Ambarella, Camcorder, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor

Mirics expands broadcast tuner product family for portable consumer electronics
Jan 7, 2008 – Mirics Semiconductor has announced the addition of the MSi002 poly-band tuner IC to its product family. The MSi002 tuner features an industry standard I2C control interface to provide support for legacy single and multi standard demodulators ICs.
News categories: Mirics, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart TV

STMicroelectronics Introduces Full High-Definition Integrated Digital TV Platform Supporting Worldwide Standards
Jan 4, 2008 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced the DTV150, which provides demodulation, MPEG-2 HD and SD decoding, full HD video processing, high quality audio, and the video switching functions, for integrated digital TV (iDTV) sets worldwide.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Zoran Corporation Announces VaddisHD™ High-Definition Multimedia Processor Platform for Blu-Ray Disc and HD-DVD Players
Jan 4, 2008 – Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) has announced that it is demonstrating its VaddisHD™ High-Definition Multimedia Processor platform, supporting both the Blu-Ray Disc and HD-DVD emerging standards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 in Las Vegas.
News categories: Zoran, Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, DVD, HD-DVD, ICs, Semiconductor

Sunplus Offers Single Chip DVB Terrestrial Solution for STB and Portable DTV Applications
Jan 4, 2008 – Sunplus Technology (TAIEX: 2401, LSE: SUPD) has announced that its new DVB-T SoC SPHE1003, which integrates front-end COFDM demodulator and backend MPEG decoder for DVB-T STB and portable DTV Solution, is available to the market.
News categories: Sunplus, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet, Terrestrial