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STMicroelectronics Reports 2011 Third Quarter and Nine Month Financial Results
Oct 24, 2011 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has reported results for the third quarter and nine months ended October 1, 2011. ST's third quarter net revenues decreased 4.9% on a sequential basis, with all regions down sequentially except the Japan & Korea region.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

STMicroelectronics to Supply STB Chip to Beijing Gehua Cable TV Network
Oct 20, 2011 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that Beijing Gehua Cable Television Network, a cable TV operator in Beijing, China, has selected ST's integrated HD Cable Modem chip to deploy in set-top boxes to all of its subscribers.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Gehua Cable, Cable Modem, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Quantenna Partners With Sagemcom On Wi-Fi Whole-Home Networking
Oct 20, 2011 – Quantenna and Sagemcom have announced a collaborative agreement to integrate Quantenna's Wi-Fi technology in Sagemcom video bridges and other Wi-Fi products, accelerating time-to-market for advanced wireless video and TV services.
News categories: Quantenna, Sagemcom, Gateway, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Newport Media Introduces Tuners for Broadcast and Cable TV Systems
Oct 18, 2011 – Newport Media has announced sampling of its new RF tuner ICs. The NMI120, NMI130 and NMI131 are compliant with DVB-T, ISDB-T, ATSC and DTMB standards. The NMI130 and NMI131 additionally support DVB-C, DOCSIS and other cable TV standards plus analogue TV.
News categories: Newport Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Newport Media Achieves Key Milestone of 50 Million Broadcast TV ICs Shipped Worldwide
Oct 18, 2011 – Newport Media has announced that it has reached a key milestone in company history with cumulative shipments of more than 50 million complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) SoCs that address multiple global standards for broadcast Mobile TV.
News categories: Newport Media, Market Research, Semiconductor

Verizon and Sigma Designs Make Smart Home a Reality
Oct 12, 2011 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has announced that Verizon's (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) Home Monitoring and Control service uses Sigma's Z-Wave networking technology within the home.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Verizon, IPTV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, USA

ViXS XCode 4000 Network Media Processors launch in Toshiba's latest HD TVs
Oct 11, 2011 – ViXS Systems has announced that its XCode 4000 family of media processors are deployed in Toshiba's latest High Definition (HD) TVs. The dual-stream HD to HD transcoding media processor is shipping in Toshiba's Regza Z3 and ZP3 3D TV LCD models.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Toshiba, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Imec implements multi-mode digital TV receiver on reconfigurable processor
Oct 10, 2011 – Imec has announced that it has developed a reconfigurable receiver for highly diversified digital video broadcasting standards. The receiver is realized using algorithm-architecture co-optimization of imec's reconfigurable processor ADRES.
News categories: imec, ATSC 3, ISDB-T, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Samsung Electro Mechanics adopts MaxLinear's MxL601 Tuner
Oct 5, 2011 – MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) has announced that Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) has selected its low power MxL601 65-nm hybrid tuner for next-generation tuner modules.
News categories: MaxLinear, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Terrestrial