Semiconductor (ICs, silicon IP, microchips, …) News

Breakthrough NXP solution brings H.264/MPEG-4 to IDTV
Feb 13, 2008 – NXP Semiconductors has announced the world's first single-chip LCD TV solution to deliver ground-breaking HDTV picture quality for advanced H.264 broadcast and MPEG-4 Internet content.
News categories: NXP, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

DivX Grants Mobile Certification to New MtekVision Media Processor
Feb 13, 2008 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) has announced a licensing deal with Mtekvision to grant DivX® Mobile Certification to a new media processor chipset used in a variety of mobile platforms.
News categories: DivX, Mtekvision, Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor

Maxscend Debuts IC for Huge Potential China Digital TV Market
Feb 13, 2008 – Eyeing the huge potential China digital TV market, Maxscend Technologies has announced the MXD1320, a demodulator IC fully compliant with China digital terrestrial television standard.
News categories: Maxscend, China, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Microtune 3-in-1 TV Tuner Deployed in TiVo HD DVR
Feb 12, 2008 – Microtune® (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced that its 3-in-1 TV tuner (the MicroTuner™ MT2131) has been deployed in TiVo®'s dual-tuner, high-definition (HD) digital video recorder (DVR).
News categories: Microtune, TiVo, Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor, USA

AMD Sharpens Focus On Latest Multimedia Technologies To Create Immersive Mobile Entertainment Experiences
Feb 12, 2008 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) has announced an expanded portfolio of products and technologies to enable such popular, media-rich applications as mobile TV, 3D games and high-fidelity audio, delivering immersive entertainment to tomorrow's mobile phones and handheld devices.
News categories: AMD, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Qualcomm Launches New Family of Chips for Mobile Consumer Devices with Wireless Connectivity, GPS, Rich Multimedia and Broadcast TV
Feb 11, 2008 – Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has announced a family of three new industry-leading chipset solutions - QST1000™, QST1100™ and QST1105™ - designed to power the next evolutions of mobile consumer devices.
News categories: Qualcomm, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Infineon Leads Digital Mobile TV with Innovative and Energy-Efficient Tuner IC Solutions
Feb 11, 2008 – Infineon (FSE/NYSE: IFX) has announced two members of its mobile TV IC family. The OMNIVIA™ TUS 9090 includes a multi-band RF Tuner, a DVB-H/T demodulator and memory. The OMNITUNE™ TUA 9001 is a direct-conversion multi-band silicon tuner.
News categories: Infineon, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

Imagination Technologies and Sharp Demonstrate the World's Most Advanced Multi-Standard Mobile TV Module at MWC 2008
Feb 11, 2008 – Imagination Technologies is demonstrating Sharp Corporation's new and highly advanced multi-standard, mobile TV module that incorporates Imagination's mobile TV IP.
News categories: Imagination Technologies, Sharp Corporation, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

Newport Media Demonstrates World's First Mobile TV System-On-Chip (SOC) For MediaFLO
Feb 11, 2008 – Newport Media has announced sample availability of the world's first complete single-chip solution for the MediaFLO™ mobile broadcast platform.
News categories: Newport Media, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Smart TV