Digital TV Semiconductor News

Microtune Announces Agreement to Acquire Auvitek

Digital TV News — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:00:59 +0000

Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Auvitek International for approximately $9 million in cash and stock and with a potential earn-out if certain performance targets are met.

CopperGate Shipped Over 10 Million HomePNA Chips for Home Networking

Digital TV News — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:31:38 +0000

CopperGate HomePNA chips are used in digital devices deployed worldwide in home entertainment networks and IPTV systems. They are deployed by more than 40 telecommunications, cable, and satellite companies.

Silicon Labs Introduces the Highest Performance Single-Chip Hybrid TV Tuner

Digital TV News — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:45:34 +0000

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) has announced the Si2170, a globally-compliant hybrid TV tuner with analog TV demodulator in a single CMOS IC - the industry's first silicon TV tuner to exceed the performance of traditional discrete TV tuners.

ARM Provides Technology For LG Electronics Digital TVs

Digital TV News — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:05:22 +0000

ARM (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMH) has announced that LG Electronics (KSE: 066570.KS) has licensed the ARM11™ MPCore™ multicore processor and ARM Mali™-200 and Mali-400 MP graphics processors to power its digital TV (DTV) development revolution.

TV IC Market Experiences Seasonal Decline

Digital TV News — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:20:22 +0000

DisplaySearch’s latest research indicates that the TV IC shipments declined seasonally to 30.8 million units for flat panel TVs in Q1’09, according to its Quarterly TV Electronics Report. Shipments were down by 4.3% Q/Q, but up 11% Y/Y.

Imagination Technologies to Include Sorenson Spark Decoder in its Video Cores

Digital TV News — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:06:59 +0000

Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) and Sorenson Media have announced that Imagination will include Sorenson Media's Sorenson Spark video decoder in future versions of its line of advanced POWERVR™ VXD video decoder IP cores.

LG Selects Broadcom for New LCD and Plasma Broadband HDTVs

Digital TV News — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:47:01 +0000

Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that its integrated BCM3549 digital TV (DTV) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution has been selected by LG Electronics (KSE: 066570.KS) for its new 'Broadband HDTVs.'

PC TV Tuner Market Faces Myriad of New Challenges

Digital TV News — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:22:19 +0000

Demand for PC-TV Tuners has fallen off from 2008’s level due to the worldwide economic recession, reports In-Stat. One hopeful development is that Microsoft's Windows 7 and new Media Center will include better connectivity for PC-TV tuners.

Maxim announces compact T-DMB, ISDB-T and DAB silicon tuner

Digital TV News — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:00:35 +0000

Maxim (NASDAQ: MXIM) has introduced the MAX2169, a multimode silicon tuner for mobile TV. This device receives signals in FM, VHF-III, UHF, and L-band, making it ideal for multimode applications that need to receive mobile TV and audio broadcasts.

Siano Brings Mobile TV to NVIDIA’s New Tegra Platform

Digital TV News — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:50:40 +0000

Siano Mobile Silicon has announced that its multi-standard mobile TV receiver chip, the SMS1150, has been selected by NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) to power its new Tegra netbook reference design.

Nextreaming and RMI Team up to Deliver CMMB Mobile TV

Digital TV News — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:50:26 +0000

RMI Corporation and Nextreaming have announced that they have successfully combined and optimized their technologies to enable first-in-class devices supporting mobile TV services over China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) network.

Mirics and Shanghai HDIC Announce Strategic Partnership

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:22:10 +0000

Mirics Semiconductor and Shanghai High Definition Digital Technology Industrial Company (HDIC) have announced a strategic partnership to enable high-definition digital TV reception on portable devices using China's DTTB standard.

Ittiam and NXP Semiconductors License Sorenson Spark Video Decoder

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:18:32 +0000

Sorenson Media has announced that Ittiam and NXP Semiconductors have licensed the Sorenson Spark decoder to enable Internet video on consumer electronic devices, including mobile phones, mobile computing devices, set-top boxes and connected TVs.

Acer Selects Broadcom for HD Media Playback on Select Aspire One Models

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:49:30 +0000

Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that the Broadcom® Crystal HD solution has been selected by Acer (Taipei: 2353) to provide high quality, high definition (HD) media playback on a new line of affordable mid-range notebook computers.

Broadcom Enables HD Media Playback in HP Mini 110 Netbook

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:43:39 +0000

Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that the Broadcom® Crystal HD solution has been selected for the HP (NYSE:HPQ) Mini 110. The HP Mini 110 is a mobile companion when users are away from their PCs or want to leave their full-size laptops at home.

Red Hot IPTV Set Top Market is Cooling

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:35:52 +0000

The IP set top box market grew 55 percent in 2008, but such breakneck growth will not continue, reports In-Stat. Many telcos have already launched TV services, so there are fewer new prospects. The economic climate is also sapping investment.

Adobe and Broadcom Bring HD Flash Video to Atom-based Netbooks

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:23:09 +0000

Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) and Adobe Systems (Nasdaq: ADBE) have announced a collaboration to enable hardware accelerated playback of high definition (HD) Adobe® Flash® based video content on platforms powered by Intel® Atom™ processors.

AMD Launches New Chip For Worldwide HDTV-on-the-PC Reception

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:08:18 +0000

AMD (NYSE: AMD) has launched the ATI Theater™ HD 750 PC TV chip offering HDTV viewing capabilities on desktop and notebook PCs around the world using analog, and digital, and free-to-air broadcast signals.

Adobe and NVIDIA Announce GPU Acceleration for Flash Player

Digital TV News — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:59:48 +0000

NVIDIA (Nasdaq:NVDA) and Adobe Systems (Nasdaq:ADBE) have announced that they are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize GPU video and graphics acceleration to enable Adobe® Flash® Player on a range of mobile Internet devices.

MaxLinear Passes the 50 Million TV Tuner IC Shipment Milestone

Digital TV News — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:30:21 +0000

MaxLinear has announced that it has shipped more than 50 million TV tuner ICs, showing the value of MaxLinear's standard digital CMOS-based RF/mixed-signal IC technology as the replacement for RF BiCMOS and Silicon Germanium based tuner ICs.

ITE Introduces World’s First Mobile DVB-T Demodulator & Multimedia Processor SoC

Digital TV News — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:11:57 +0000

ITE Tech (Taipei: 3014) has announced the launch of AT9058M, the world’s first DVB-T single chip SoC enabling a high quality, ultra low power, and small footprint solution for DVB-T feature phone, PND and pocket TV applications.

Sigma Introduces New Thin Client Media Processor

Digital TV News — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:37:09 +0000

Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced the availability of its SMP8652 media processor SoC. The SMP8652 is designed for thin client applications, such as IPTV set-top boxes (STBs), digital media adapters (DMAs), and hybrid cable/IP thin clients.

Sigma Introduces Media Processor Optimized for Blu-ray Players

Digital TV News — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:30:53 +0000

Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that it has begun sampling its new SMP8642 media processor SoC, designed for mainstream Blu-ray players. Product demonstrations are available at this week’s Computex 2009 Show, located in Taipei.

Qualcomm Expands Snapdragon Platform with 45nm Chipset

Digital TV News — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:00:43 +0000

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) has announced that it is expanding its Snapdragon™ platform with a next-generation chipset that features high-definition video recording and playback, and support for mobile TV technologies such as MediaFLO™, DVB-H and ISDB-T.

Zoran Introduces SupraHD® 787 HDTV Processors for 1080P DTV

Digital TV News — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:20:54 +0000

Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) has announced that its advanced SupraHD® 787 HDTV processors are now available to qualified DTV manufacturers supplying the premium ATSC digital TV market in the U.S.

Sigma Designs Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results

Digital TV News — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:00:46 +0000

Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has reported results for its first quarter ended May 2, 2009. Net revenue for the first quarter was $51.2 million from $47.3 million in the previous quarter, down from $56.9 million for the same period last year.

SiS 217H HDTV Processor Targets Taiwan HiHD DVB-T Market

Digital TV News — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:20:27 +0000

Silicon Integrated Systems has unveiled a new high integrated HDTV processor, SiS217H, for the new HiHD digital broadcasting system in Taiwan. The processor incorporates a high-definition H.264/AVC and MPEG-2 compliant decoder.

ViXS Enables New Hitachi HD Flat Panel TVs with built-in HDD

Digital TV News — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:01:54 +0000

ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode® 3290 has been selected by Hitachi (Tokyo:6501; NYSE:HIT) to enable their latest generation of HD Flat Panel TVs featuring a built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for Personal Video Recording (PVR).

Intel to use Broadcom to enhance Netbook HD decoding

Digital TV News — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:51:29 +0000

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) plans to offer the BCM70015 graphics chip from Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) as an option to improve HD video performance in its next-generation netbook platform (Pine Trail).

Entropic Announces Channel Stacking Switch for Free-To-Air Satellite Market

Digital TV News — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:20:14 +0000

Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that its next-generation Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) technology has been tapped by several OEMs for the large free-to-air (FTA) European satellite market.