Broadcom design wins cement market dominance

MIPS Technologies is claiming market leadership in the digital set-top box market following Broadcom's MIPS-based design wins in Echostar's satellite Dish 322 and Dish Player-DVR 522 products.

MIPS Technologies is claiming market leadership in the digital set-top box market following Broadcom's MIPS-based design wins in Echostar's satellite Dish 322 and Dish Player-DVR 522 products.

According to various market research firms, the MIPS architecture is a leader within the digital set-top box market with close to 30% share, one of the highest among any microprocessor architecture.

These design wins are the latest to be publicly celebrated by leading MIPS Technologies licensees.

With this announcement, the Echostar Dish satellite players join MIPS-based boxes from OEMs such as: Hughes Network Systems HDVR2 DirecTV DVR with TiVo; Motorola DCT 2500, DCT 2600 and DCT-5100 Series; the Pace 500 series, used by Time Warner Cable; Pioneer's Voyager 3000 cable set-top box; Scientific Atlanta 3250HD and 4200HD models; Sony's CoCoon PVR; TiVo Series 2; Galaxis LinuxTV model; and RCA's RW2100 Internet receiver.

"For years the MIPS architecture has been recognised by OEMs and semiconductor companies as the leading platform within the digital set-top box space", said Tony Massinimi, Chief Technologist at Semico Research Corp.

"These latest design wins further cement the architecture's dominance and indicate its ongoing success in this high-growth market".

Digital set-top-boxes and integrated digital TVs are at the centre of the fast-growing consumer electronics marketplace.

Accordingly, leading OEMs and semiconductor companies serving this opportunity are challenged to provide innovative new products that incorporate the latest features - such as entertainment-on-demand, interactive and real-time participation and PVR functionality - within shrinking market windows.

To solve these challenges, SoC designers are turning to MIPS Technologies' industry-standard technology and high performance processors to ease system integration, lower overall silicon cost and standardise on a flexible design platform to leverage future designs.

As the leading architecture within the STB and integrated DTV markets, MIPS-based designers have access to optimised technologies such as audio and video codecs, operating systems - such as Linux, Windows CE.NET and VxWorks - middleware, and applications such as Interactive TV.

"Leading providers of STB solutions, such as ATI, Broadcom, NEC, Philips and others, are turning to the MIPS architecture to ensure their products exceed market requirements and deliver an enhanced user experience to consumers", said Jeff Sasagawa, Director of Market Development and System Solutions at MIPS Technologies.

"High definition TV, PVR functionality and the latest interactive and on-demand services are just some of the important features enabled by the MIPS architecture.

We applaud Broadcom on this latest design win and look forward to their continued success".

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