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MediaTek licenses Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment
Jul 30, 2013 – MediaTek and Trustonic have announced a strategic partnership to embed the Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), <t™-base, into MediaTek system-on-chip (SoC) solutions to enable secure apps for smart connected devices.
News categories: Trustonic, MediaTek, Apps, Content Protection, DRM, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smartphone, Tablet

AltoBeam and UMC demonstrate DVB-T2/T/C/S2/S demodulator
Jul 30, 2013 – AltoBeam and UMC (NYSE:UMC)(TWSE:2303) have announced the release of AltoBeam's DVB-T2/T/C/S2/S demodulator. The ATBM7812 utilizes UMC's proprietary URAM embedded memory technology on 300mm wafers to enable higher performance and smaller chip size.
News categories: AltoBeam, UMC, BroadcastAsia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-T2, ICs, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP, Smart TV, Terrestrial

DDD and Samsung renew 3D video processing chip technology license agreement
Jul 25, 2013 – DDD Group (AIM: DDD; OTCQX: DDDGY) has renewed its license agreement with Samsung Electronics to include DDD's TriDef™ 2D to 3D technologies with Samsung's 3D video processing chips that are used in Samsung Smart TVs and other Samsung 3D consumer products.
News categories: DDD, Samsung, Licensing, Metaverse, Patent, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart TV

Broadcom reports second quarter 2013 results
Jul 23, 2013 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has reported results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Net revenue for the period was $2.09 billion. This represents an increase of 6.0% compared with the $1.97 billion reported for the second quarter of 2012.
News categories: Broadcom, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

MaxLinear commences hybrid TV tuner shipments to Samsung
Jul 23, 2013 – MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) has announced that it has begun production shipments of its MxL6xx family of software-programmable, low power, global hybrid television tuners in Samsung TVs.
News categories: MaxLinear, Samsung, Semiconductor, Smart TV

STMicroelectronics reports 2013 second quarter results
Jul 22, 2013 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has reported results for the second quarter and first half ending June 29, 2013. Second quarter net revenues totaled $2.05 billion. Net revenues increased 1.8% sequentially and decreased 4.8% on a year-over-year basis.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Broadcom launches HD DOCSIS 2.0 STB reference design for emerging markets
Jul 22, 2013 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced a high definition (HD) and Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 2.0 set-top box (STB) reference platform for operators in emerging markets.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable Modem, Cable TV, DOCSIS, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Entropic switches to ARM Mali for graphics and extends ARM Cortex processor licenses
Jul 22, 2013 – ARM (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMH) has announced that Entropic (NASDAQ: ENTR) has licensed the ARM Mali™-400 and Mali-450 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) technology and has also entered into a new license agreement for the Cortex-R5 processor.
News categories: ARM, Entropic, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP

Allegro DVT adds 10-bit support to HEVC decoder silicon IP
Jul 19, 2013 – Allegro DVT has announced the industry's first fully compliant HEVC decoding IP that supports both Main and Main10 profiles. The Main10 profile was specifically designed to improve 4K content video quality thanks to 10 bit color depth support.
News categories: Allegro DVT, Semiconductor, Silicon IP