Tablet / PMP (Portable Media Player) News

CEVA Mobile Consumer Electronics Silicon IP Family
Mar 22, 2007 – CEVA (NASDAQ: CEVA)(LSE: CVA) has unveiled a new family of application-optimized solutions enabling the development of high-volume, low-cost mobile consumer electronics with advanced multimedia capabilities.
News categories: CEVA, Inc, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Tablet

MaxLinear's Low-Power Silicon Tuner Picked by Samsung for World's First A-VSB Portable TV Prototype
Mar 19, 2007 – MaxLinear has announced that its revolutionary MxL5005S Silicon Tuner RF IC has been designed into the world's first Advanced VSB (A-VSB) portable television prototype from Samsung.
News categories: MaxLinear, Samsung Electronics, Digital TV, Mobile, NABShow, Semiconductor, Tablet, USA

Global Consumer Electronics Sales Defying Economic Cycles
Mar 13, 2007 – A succession of attractive new products, along with falling prices and increased capabilities, has helped make the consumer electronics (CE) market seemingly impervious to economic ups and downs around the world. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, Tablet

iSuppli predicts 5.5% CAGR for PMPs through 2011
Mar 12, 2007 – The portable media player (PMP)/MP3 player market is expected to grow to 268.6 million units in 2011, according to a forecast from market research analyst iSuppli Corp.
News categories: Digital TV, Market Research, Tablet

Actions Semi. Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006
Feb 10, 2007 – Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS) has reported record financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006.
News categories: Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Tablet

Focus Enhancements' UWB and TV-out Technology Receives Strong Customer Response at CES 2007
Jan 16, 2007 – Focus Enhancements (NASDAQ: FCSE) summarized its attendance at the 2007 CES. Focus Enhancements showed portable media devices incorporating its high definition media semiconductor chips.
News categories: Focus Enhancements, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Tablet

RMI Introduces Two New Processor ICs For Portable Consumer Devices
Jan 9, 2007 – Raza Microelectronics (RMI®) has announced two new products for next-generation Multifunction Portable Media Players (mPMP™) and other Consumer applications.
News categories: Raza Micro, CES2025, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Tablet

NDS to Provide End-to-End Content Protection System for KT Mobile Content Service "toest", Enabling Secure Video Downloads to WiFi Hotspots
Jan 3, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been selected by KT of Korea, to deploy a full end-to-end system including NDS VideoGuard Mobile and NDS VideoGuard PMP on the company's new 'toest' mobile content platform.
News categories: NDS Group, KT, CES2025, Content Protection, Digital TV, Korea, Mobile, Smart Home, Tablet

Vivace Semi and Huaqi (Aigo) To Collaborate On Consumer Entertainment Technology
Dec 18, 2006 – Vivace Semiconductor has signed a partnership with Huaqi Information Digital Technology of Beijing to collaborate on developing solutions for the Aigo-branded line of portable media player products.
News categories: Vivace Semi, Aigo, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Tablet