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

TI Delivers First Single-Chip, Real-Time HD Video Transcoding Solution with DaVinci™ Technology
Dec 3, 2007 – To allow consumers to seamlessly move content across their video end products, Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) is offering a new DaVinci™ technology digital media processor for video transcoding in media gateways, multi-point control units, digital media adaptors, video security DVRs and IP set-top boxes.
News categories: Texas Instruments (TI), Digital TV, DVR, ICs, IPTV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

Broadcom Delivers the Industry's Most Advanced Real-Time, High Definition Video/Audio Encoder/Transcoder Single-Chip Solution
Dec 3, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced its real-time, high definition (HD) encoder/transcoder solution. The new single-chip enables consumer devices to share a wide variety of video and audio content while maintaining a high degree of digital rights management and security
News categories: Broadcom, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

Sansonic Deploys Amedia's WiVi™ Technology and Introduces the Industry's First Line of Multimedia Wireless TVs
Dec 2, 2007 – Sansonic is making its debut in Las Vegas at CES with the introduction of their full line of Wireless Multimedia products and Wireless Multimedia TVs, using Amedia Networks' WVA5000 WiVi™ wireless transmission chipset solution.
News categories: Amedia Networks, Sansonic, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV

DisplaySearch Reports TV Video Processor IC Shipments Up 28% Q/Q and 22% Y/Y in Q3'07 on Rapid Growth of TV Shipments in Europe and Asia
Nov 29, 2007 – Mediatek has continued to take market share from other TV IC suppliers, displacing Genesis as #2 on a unit basis on strong shipments to Chinese TV OEMs and shipments to retail house brands that used Mediatek's DTV IC solutions.
News categories: DisplaySearch, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Sigma Designs, Inc. Reports Fiscal Third Quarter Results
Nov 28, 2007 – Sigma Designs' (NASDAQ:SIGM) net revenues for the third quarter were $66.2 million, up from $25.1 million reported for the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to increased SoC sales to manufacturers of IPTV set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Investor Presentation, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, IPTV, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Broadcom and RaisingSun Collaborate to Deliver Industry's First Digital TV Solution for China's Television Market
Nov 28, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced a collaboration with RaisingSun Digital Video Technology Company of Shanghai, China, that provides the industry's first complete digital television (DTV) solution for China's television market.
News categories: Broadcom, iTVware, ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

New NXP Solutions Bring Most Advanced PCTV Capabilities to Notebook and Desktop PCs
Nov 26, 2007 – NXP has announced the arrival of two brand new additions to its PCTV family. The SAA7164BE and SAA7163AE are new PC TV processors designed to bring multi-streaming and PVR capabilities to desktop and notebook multimedia PC TV USB applications.
News categories: NXP, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

On2 Technologies and Texas Instruments Collaborate on Video Devices Providing Optimized Codec Performance
Nov 26, 2007 – On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT) has announced an extensive agreement with Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN), under which the two companies will collaborate on technology to implement On2's TrueMotion® VP6™ and VP7™ video compression formats on TI's OMAP™ Platform and DaVinci™ technology for mobile handsets and digital video applications.
News categories: On2, Texas Instruments (TI), Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor

Conexant's HDTV Video Decoders Certified for DCS' Analog Copy Protection
Nov 26, 2007 – Conexant (NASDAQ: CNXT) has announced that it has certified Dwight Cavendish Systems' (DCS) analog copy protection technology on its CX2427X and CX2450X MPEG video decoder families.
News categories: Conexant, Dwight Cavendish Systems (DCS), Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor