Dolby announced three new design wins at IFA, concerning its Dolby Vision HDR technology. Matt has covered them in detail in his latest Display Daily (HDR Coming “Real Soon Now”), but they are also worth bringing up here due to their importance.
The first Dolby partner is HiSilicon, which will build Dolby Vision technology into its new UltraHD STB SoCs, the Hi3798C V200 chipset. It will be the first global UHD STB chipset solution to support the Dolby Vision format, says HiSilicon. As well as the HDR solution, the Hi33798C V200 will support UltraHD at 60fps. Two more chips will be part of the series: Hi3798M V100 and Hi3796M V100. They are built on 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex A53 CPUs and ARM Mali-T720 GPUs. All chips support HEVC and VP9 decoding.
Next is Realtek, which will build Dolby Vision technology into its TV SoCs. The company has also said that it will deliver STB SoCs ‘in the near future’.
Mediatek is Dolby Vision’s final new partner, which will build SoCs for TVs, UHD Blu-ray players and digital media adapters.
