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Auvitek Expands Line of DTMB Receiver ICs With 5 New Products
Jan 8, 2009 – Building on the successful 2008 launch of its flagship AU8822 DTMB+PAL channel decoder, Auvitek has announced the introduction of 5 new ICs to expand its offerings to address all segments of the China terrestrial broadcast receiver market.
News categories: Auvitek, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Hong Kong, ICs, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Broadband TV Powered by Intel Architecture CPU Developed by Orion Electric and Quixun
Jan 8, 2009 – Orion Electric has developed a broadband TV powered by an Intel Architecture-based CPU jointly with Quixun. Its concept model will be exhibited at CES 2009.
News categories: Orion Electric, Quixun, CES2025, Media Player, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming

Broadcom signs license agreement for CryptoFirewall™ security technology
Jan 8, 2009 – Cryptography Research has announced that Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has signed a license agreement for Cryptography Research's CryptoFirewall™ security technology for future integration into its multimedia system-on-a-chip (SoC) set-top box chips.
News categories: Broadcom, Cryptography Research, CES2025, Content Protection, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Silicon Image™ Introduces The First LiquidHD™ Display Processor
Jan 8, 2009 – Silicon Image™ (NASDAQ: SIMG) has introduced the SiI6100 HD display processor, the first device supporting Silicon Image LiquidHD™ technology. LiquidHD is designed to connect TVs, CE devices, PCs, PMDs and home theaters into a seamless network.
News categories: Silicon Image, Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV

Entropic Communications Showcases MoCA Home Networking Devices With VUDU HD At 2009 International CES
Jan 8, 2009 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that it is showcasing the NETGEAR MCAB1001 Ethernet to Coax Bridge (ECB) kit, powered by its c.LINK® MoCA® technology, in live demonstrations with the VUDU HD Internet Movie Box at CES.
News categories: Entropic Communications, VUDU, NETGEAR, CES2025, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

RMI Introduces Industry's Most Advanced Processor for Portable Media Applications With Integrated ARM Mali 3D Graphics Acceleration
Jan 8, 2009 – RMI Corporation has introduced its game changing RMI Alchemy™ Au1300™ Processor Family, targeted at consumer devices requiring high CPU performance, low power consumption, and rich media capabilities.
News categories: RMI Corp, CES2025, ICs, Portable, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Streaming, Tablet

Intel Shows Broad Industry Support for Internet Experience to Your TV
Jan 8, 2009 – Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) showed broad industry support that brings a variety of rich Internet applications to the TV through new connected consumer electronics (CE) devices running on the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100.
News categories: Intel Corp, CES2025, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming

ViXS Showcases a Wide Range of Video Products Powered by XCode 3000™ at CES 2009
Jan 8, 2009 – ViXS Systems will be showcasing a wide variety of CE, set-top and blu-ray disk recorder solutions based on the XCode™ series ICs. At CES 2009 ViXS will be showcasing an industry first: a fully compliant DLNA server stack with real-time transcoding.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Blu-ray, CES2025, DVR, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

ViXS XCode™ provides Media Processing For Blusens blu:brain Home Entertainment Device (HED)
Jan 8, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that Blusens is using the ViXS XCode™ 2100 Series video processor to digitize analog video in its new blu:brain Home Entertainment Device (HED).
News categories: ViXS Systems, Blusens, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Mobile, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial