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ST Digital Satellite Broadcast Chips Enable SIRIUS In-Vehicle TV
Jun 28, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced it is providing the digital broadcasting chipset for SIRIUS Backseat TV(TM), a ground-breaking TV service that delivers live TV from the best family TV programmers directly to vehicles. More …
News categories: Automotive, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, USA

Magnum Semiconductor Agrees To Acquire LSI Consumer Products Business
Jun 27, 2007 – LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) and Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Magnum will acquire the LSI consumer products business in a transaction to be funded by private equity investment.
News categories: Magnum Semiconductor, LSI Corp, Digital TV, MandA, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

SiBEAM Reveals 60GHz Wireless Semiconductor Technology
Jun 27, 2007 – SiBEAM has announced that they are the first to break the barriers of 60 GHz technology with the development of working 60 GHz chipsets for non-line-of-sight applications, built using standard CMOS manufacturing techniques.
News categories: SiBEAM, WirelessHD, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Samsung Advanced Multi-standard, Multi-band Mobile TV Chipset
Jun 27, 2007 – Samsung Electronics has announced the industry's first 65nm multi-standard channel decoder and multi-band radio frequency (RF) tuner chipset which supports multi digital mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and T-DMB.
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor

Sumitomo Chooses Intellon HomePlug for In-Home IPTV Services
Jun 26, 2007 – Intellon has announced that Sumitomo Electric Industries has chosen Intellon’s HomePlug-based INT6000 IC to enable in-home distribution of KDDI’s IPTV services in Japan. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Intel to Bring OpenCable to Its Future Consumer Electronics Products
Jun 26, 2007 – Intel Corporation and CableLabs have announced that the two companies have signed an OpenCable Platform Agreement and will include support for the OpenCable Platform in future Intel consumer electronic (CE) system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. More …
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, USA

Mobilygen Announces the Industry's Broadest Range of H.264 HD Codec ICs
Jun 25, 2007 – Mobilygen has announced the en-ViE platform enabling the creation, playback and distribution of HD H.264 video for connected home, mobile, and surveillance applications.
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart Home

TTV Selects Zentek's DVB-MHP Set Top Box in Taiwan
Jun 22, 2007 – Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) has selected Zentek as its preferred provider for the first DVB-MHP Set Top Box. Taiwan terrestrial broadcasters have adopted DVB-MHP as the transmission standard for terrestrial broadcast. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial

NXP Semiconductors launches industry's first fully integrated, silicon-based IC solution for satellite LNB
Jun 19, 2007 – NXP Semiconductors has announced the next step in bringing affordable, reliable satellite television technology solutions to the world market. NXP is introducing the industry's first fully integrated down converter for Ku-band digital video broadcasting satellite Low Noise Block (LNB).
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, LNB, Satellite, Semiconductor, TV Services