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Rockchip RK3328 STB SoC is Three Times Faster

by Bob Raikes

Rockchip has showed its new upgraded RK3328 UHD TV box SOC solution at a trade show in Hong Kong and claims it is almost three times faster than previous products as well as adding …

PowerVR Upgraded for Lower Cost UHD

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies has new PowerVR GPUs for cost-sensitive devices. The PowerVR Series9XE and 9XM GPUs maintain fillrate density and are said to provide a significant boost in performance density. The chips are designed for …

Imagination Sold to Chinese-backed Fund

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies of the UK has been sold to Canyon-bridge Capital Partners, a private equity fund, for £55 million, a 47.4% premium to the share price on the day before the company was put …

MaxLinear Wins Order for Sky Q Wideband LNB Chips

by Bob Raikes

Semiconductor maker MaxLinear has won a deal with Microelectronics Technology Inc to supply its MxL80x RF downconverter to be used in a new wideband low-noise block (LNB) to support the Sky UK ‘Q’ service …

Socionext Claims First in Image Recognition

by Bob Raikes

Socionext will show a new graphics SoC, the SC1810 at the International VDI Congress ’ELIV’ (Electronics In Vehicles) event in Bonn (Germany), October 18–19th. The chip includes what the company claims is the first …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 33

MStar Adopts Dolby MS12 v2 for Atmos Support

by Bob Raikes

Dolby Labs and MStar said that MStar has made a new Dolby Multistream Decoder MS12 chip that can provide TV makers with a single-package solution for decoding premium audio content worldwide — broadcast, file-based, …

Tags:Chips| Dolby Atmos| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Tuning the Color of Perovskite LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Sixteen authors from institutions in Austria, Germany and Sweden recently reported on a technique to adjust the color of LED emissions using perovskites. This adjustment is done at the manufacturing stage, not in real-time …

ChipMOS Optimistic on Novatek Orders

by Bob Raikes

Taiwanese sources report that ChipMOS Technologies has won business from Novatek Microelectronics for touch display driver chips. The sources report that the business will go towards offsetting a loss of business from Synaptics. The …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Taiwan| Touch Controllers| Vol 24 - Issue 29

Parade Adds DisplayPort 1.4 Mux and Demux Products with Jitter Cleaning

by Bob Raikes

DisplayPort specialist, Parade Technologies, has two two new chips that expand options for video transport demultiplexing/multiplexing and signal conditioning for Dual-Mode DisplayPort 1.4 in personal computers, workstations, and other high-resolution video device applications. The …

Intersil Ships First FullHD LCD Video Processor for Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Intersil, a subsidiary of Renesas announced the TW8844 LCD video processor that interfaces with the latest generation of automotive SoCs. The highly integrated TW8844 is said to be the first FullHD LCD video processor …

01 STMicroelectronics Retains Leti Links

by Bob Raikes

Jean-Marc Chery is the Deputy CEO from STMicroelectronics (STM) which has several big facilities in Grenoble that work closely with Leti. STM is working in two big areas – the IoT and Smart Driving. …

Leti Days Highlight European Chip Future

by Bob Raikes

It’s funny how things work out. I was due to meet up with Leti, a French R&D organisation, at the recent SID event, as the group was showing a new LED-based microdisplay. Unfortunately, the …