Semiconductors – Page 17

ALi and Alticast Make a pay-TV Alliance

by Alan Spencer

Taiwan-based, ALi, that develops set-top box chipsets, and Korea-based Alticast, that provides software used by the global pay-TV industry, have announced an alliance. The two companies will work together to explore business opportunities in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Software| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 12

HiSilicon Gets Support and Adds Media Hub Application

by Bob Raikes

HiSilicon (the chip-making subsidiary of Huawei) told us that it had no new SoCs for STBs since IBC. At the show it was mainly talking about new middleware versions. Separately, iWedia said that it …

LG Uses Cypress USB Type-C Support Chip

by Bob Raikes

Cypress Semiconductor said that LG had used the Cypress EZ-PD CCG3 controllers to support the USB Type-C connectors in the LG Gram (LG Has New Monitors and Projectors). “With the push for USB Power …

Mstar Integrates Irdeto Rights for China DRM Hardware Profile

by Milos Pavlovic

Irdeto has announced the successful integration of Irdeto Rights for China DRM Hardware Profile with MStar Semiconductor, Inc.’s trusted execution environment (TEE) hardware for its chipsets equipped with the capability of Side Channel Resistance …

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Vixs Wins Sharp UHD BD Recorders

by Bob Raikes

Vixs of Toronto, Canada, said that Sharp will use Vixs chips in three new BD Recorder products for Ultra HD Blu-ray. The will be based on the XCode 6800 and XCode 5190 System on …

AMPHION Releases Two HEVC/H.265 Video Decoder IP Variants

by Milos Pavlovic

Amphion Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of 2 extended performance variants of its highly successful HEVC/H.265 ‘Malone’ video decoder core for SoC implementation. The 4Kp120 (CS8150) and 8Kp60 (CS8160) variants target higher frame …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Semiconductor Industry| Semiconductors| Video Encoders & Decoders

Foxconn Intends to Buy the Toshiba Memory Chip Unit

by Alan Spencer

The Foxconn Technology Group has announced its plans to buy Toshiba’s loss-making chip business. The chairman of Foxconn, Terry Gou, made this announcement during a factory event in Guangzhou, China as reported in the …

Xilinx Supporting Transcoding

by Bob Raikes

Xilinx didn’t seem sure they wanted to talk to us, but when they decided that we might know something about video compression and FPGAs, they seemed to change their minds! At the show, the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Transcoders| Vol 23 - Issue 17| Vol 24 - Issue 06

Xiaomi To Give Chip Details

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi Technology is planning an event on 28th February to unveil two chips from its Pinecone business (Xiaomi to Use In House CPU), and believed to be the V670 octacore processor with all based …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 07| Xiaomi

Xiaomi to Use In House CPU

by Alan Spencer

Xiaomi is expected to launch its Mi 5C smartphone with own-developed Pinecone V670 CPU in China, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News report (via Digitimes). The new smartphone is expected to be released …

MediaTek Sees Fall in Revenues At Start of Year

by Alan Spencer

MediaTek saw a drop in its consolidated revenues to NT$18.31 billion (US$588.3 million) in January 2017. This represents a 11-month low and a decrease of 14.2% on month and 14.1% on year. Blamed for …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 05

MediaTek Chipset Supports Dual-camera Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

MediaTek has released the Helio P25, which uses 16nm Octa core processing and supports single or dual cameras (24 MP or dual 13 MP) with de-noise algorithms and real time shallow depth of field …