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Fujitsu Develops Compact Frequency-Synthesizer for Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcast Tuners
Feb 10, 2010 – Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of a new frequency-synthesizer designed for tuners for terrestrial digital television broadcast reception, paving the way for future development of compact dual-tuners for mobile phones.
News categories: Fujitsu, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Terrestrial

MPEG IC Shipments on Track to Reach 2 Billion units
Feb 1, 2010 – As consumers access digital video on more devices, applications for MPEG digital video compression technology are expanding, particularly in portable devices, reports In-Stat. As a result, shipments of MPEG ICs will reach 2 billion units by 2013.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, Mobile, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP, Smart TV

Imagination Technologies' video decoder cores to support On2 VP6 video format
Jan 8, 2010 – Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) and On2 Technologies (NYSE Amex: ONT) are working together to enable Imagination to support decoding of On2 video formats, beginning with VP6, which will be introduced into the POWERVR VXD family in Q1 2010.
News categories: Imagination Technologies, On2 Technologies, CES2025, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

MIPS Technologies Leverages Yahoo! TV Widgets for MIPS-Based™ DTV Platforms
Jan 7, 2010 – MIPS (Nasdaq:MIPS) has announced integration of the Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) Widget Engine for MIPS-Based™ digital home devices. MIPS will develop an reference platform running the Yahoo! Widget Engine for digital TV and set-top box applications.
News categories: MIPS Technologies, Yahoo!, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP, Smart TV, Streaming

Imagination Technologies Powers 3D for NXP Set-Top Box platform
Jan 6, 2010 – Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) and NXP Semiconductors will demonstrate the recently announced NXP PNX847x/8x/9x SoC family at CES. The NXP PNX847x/8x/9x integrates Imagination's POWERVR SGX531 3D GPU.
News categories: Imagination Technologies, NXP, CES2025, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

AllGo Systems Partners with MIPS Technologies and Tensilica to Bring Android™ to Home Entertainment Devices
Jan 6, 2010 – AllGo Systems is working with MIPS Technologies and Tensilica to bring high-end media codec support with advanced multimedia features to MIPS-Based™ Android™ platforms for home entertainment and mobile consumer products based on Android.
News categories: AllGo Systems, CES2025, Media Player, Middleware, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart Home, Streaming

MStar Licenses MIPS32® 34Kf™ Pro Processor IP
Jan 5, 2010 – MIPS Technologies (Nasdaq:MIPS) has announced that MStar Semiconductor has licensed its multi-threaded MIPS32® 34Kf™ Pro synthesizable processor core for next-generation devices.
News categories: MIPS Technologies, MStar Semi, CES2025, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart TV

NXP to Show the First Fully Integrated 45nm Set Top Box SoC Based on ARM Cortex-A9 Processors
Jan 5, 2010 – NXP Semiconductors and ARM (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMH) will showcase the recently announced NXP 847x/8x/9x SoC family, which is based on multiple ARM® Cortex™ processors, at CES this week.
News categories: ARM, NXP, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP

ATSC-M/H Demodulator IP Core for Mobile DTV by Iberium Communications
Jan 4, 2010 – Iberium Communications has announced that it is developing an ATSC M/H demodulation core for the North American and Korean mobile DTV markets. The company will demonstrate the preliminary FPGA implementation at CES 2010.
News categories: Iberium, CES2025, Mobile, Silicon IP