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NEC Electronics and Renesas Reach Agreement on Business Integration
Sep 16, 2009 – NEC Electronics (TSE:6723), Renesas, NEC Corp (TSE:6701), Hitachi (TSE:6501; NYSE:HIT) and Mitsubishi (TSE:6503) have signed an agreement to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas with NEC Electronics being the surviving entity.
News categories: NEC Electronics, Renesas, MandA, Semiconductor

Internet-Enabled TV Sales to Rise Sixfold by 2013
Sep 15, 2009 – After more than a dozen years of failing to live up to its promise, web access on the television is finally ready for prime time, with retail sales of Internet-Enabled Televisions (IETVs) set to rise by a factor of six by 2013, according to iSuppli.
News categories: iSuppli, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming

On2 takes licence to produce DivX IP Video cores
Sep 15, 2009 – DivX (Nasdaq: DIVX) and On2 Technologies Finland have announced a license agreement for DivX® technology. The agreement enables On2 to develop hardware-based semiconductor IP video cores capable of decoding high quality DivX Home Theater video.
News categories: DivX, On2, Licensing, Media Player, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

ViXS Systems to integrate SypherMedia Security Technology
Sep 14, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that it has added SMI's SypherMedia GateKeyper™ and Kernel™ technologies into the Xtensive™ applications developer software suite for its multimedia ICs.
News categories: ViXS Systems, SypherMedia International, Conditional Access, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP

Market Ready For Launch Of DVB-T2 Services
Sep 11, 2009 – The launch of DVB-T2 HD services is on schedule to take place later this year in the United Kingdom, with further launches expected in several other European countries including Finland and Serbia.
News categories: DVB Project, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Finland, IBCShow, Semiconductor, Serbia, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Sigma Designs and Eyecon Technologies to demo Popcorn Hour STB at IBC
Sep 11, 2009 – Syabas has announced that Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) will be demonstrating the SMP8643 media processor that powers Syabas' Popcorn Hour C-200 set-top box at this year's IBC tradeshow.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Syabas, Eyecon Technologies, Digital TV, IBCShow, Media Player, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

ViXS® SoC Provide Mobile Phone Video Support in Sharp Blu-Ray PVR/Recorders
Sep 11, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that Sharp's latest Blu-Ray Disc (BD) PVR/recorder products have taken advantage of the video processing flexibility of the XCode® 3000 series to enable broadcast video conversion for mobile phone support.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Sharp Corp, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, Japan, Mobile, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor

Samsung and Sigma Launch Second Generation Support for Microsoft® Mediaroom™
Sep 10, 2009 – Samsung (Seoul: 005930) and Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM) have announced that Samsung will be delivering the SMT-E7200 line of set-top boxes, based around Sigma's SMP8654 media processor, and supporting Microsoft's Mediaroom client.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Samsung, Ken Lowe, Hee-Won Park, Steve Koepp, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Zoran Announces NDS Certification for Pay-TV Products
Sep 10, 2009 – Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) has announced that NDS has certified its SupraTV® 265, SupraXD® 170 and SupraXD® 180 Processors for the secure delivery of digital content to pay-tv set-top boxes using NDS VideoGuard® conditional access (CA).
News categories: Zoran, NDS Group, Conditional Access, IBCShow, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box