Tablet / PMP (Portable Media Player) News

Legend Silicon and Texas Instruments to co-develop innovative China DTTB solutions for PMP manufacturers
Aug 16, 2007 – Legend Silicon (LS) and Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) have announced that the two companies will form a strategic technology engagement to develop custom DTTB solutions for PMP (Portable Media Player) devices.
News categories: Legend Silicon, Texas Instruments, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Semiconductor, Tablet, Terrestrial

NDS at IBC 07: Bringing Convergence Home
Aug 14, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that at this year's IBC it will showcase a full range of solutions geared to helping TV service providers enable convergence and capitalize on the business opportunities it presents.
News categories: NDS Group, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Software, Tablet

Magnum Semiconductor Agrees To Acquire LSI Consumer Products Business
Jun 27, 2007 – LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) and Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Magnum will acquire the LSI consumer products business in a transaction to be funded by private equity investment.
News categories: Magnum Semiconductor, LSI Corp, Digital TV, MandA, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

'Non-traditional' Devices Will Lead Growth of TV Receiver Market
Jun 17, 2007 – Of the more than 360 million digital terrestrial television (DTT) receivers expected to ship in 2013, about a quarter will be found in "non-traditional" consumer electronics devices rather than in standard TVs and set-top boxes.
News categories: Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet, Terrestrial

DivX Certifies NXP's Media Processors to Power IP Set Top Boxes, Digital Media Adapters and Portable Players
Jun 5, 2007 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX) and NXP Semiconductors have announced the DivX Certification of a series of processors designed to power a variety of device categories, including IP set-top boxes (STBs), digital media adapters, personal media players and in-car media players.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

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

Opera and TI team to bring the Web to Next Generation Devices
May 16, 2007 – Driving further functionality for digital video applications, Opera Software and Texas Instruments Incorporated announce the availability of the Opera browser for DaVinci technology. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

Intel Media Processor Powers New Generation Of CE Devices
Apr 18, 2007 – Intel Corporation has unveiled a highly integrated media processor for the consumer electronics (CE) market segment that will power a new generation of devices, such as digital set top boxes and networked media players.
News categories: Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet, Taiwan

Actions Semiconductor Licenses MIPS32 24KEc Pro CPU
Mar 28, 2007 – MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) has announced that Actions Semiconductor has licensed the MIPS32® 24KEc(TM) Pro core to develop next-generation SoCs for portable, digital multimedia applications. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Tablet