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News Release from: MIPS Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 January 2004
Strong showing for customers at CES
This year's Consumer Electronics Show has again seen significant announcements by MIPS Technologies' customers.
This year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has again seen significant announcements by MIPS Technologies' customers The event, which is recognised around the world as one of the pre-eminent venues for technology offerings to consumers and OEMs, plays host to thousands of visitors and hundreds of leading electronics companies
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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ATI introduced the MIPS-Based Xilleon 210VC, which the company claims is the world's first digital terrestrial and cable plug-and-play television on a chip.
The company also stated that all the essential technology that goes into making a North American or Korean digital TV - the reception front-end and the video decode and display back end - now are available from ATI in this solution.
Broadcom announced it is entering the consumer television market with the BCM7038, which Broadcom believes is the industry's first single-chip, dual-channel HD video/audio/graphics and personal video recording (PVR) solution for digital televisions, cable set-top boxes, satellite receivers and HD-DVD players.
The BCM7038 enables consumer electronics manufacturers to deliver HDTV solutions with superior picture and sound quality at consumer price values.
Broadcom also announced that it is offering XTV compliant chips for PVR applications.
Royal Philips Electronics launched what it claims is the world's first DVD+R/+RW and hard disk drive (HDD) combination semiconductor reference design.
The MIPS-Based Nexperia Home complete reference design will enable DVD recorder manufacturers that do not have in-house DVD+RW/HDD chip solutions to introduce DVD+R/+RW video recorders with integrated HDD in 2004, in time for the next holiday buying season.
QuickLogic revealed that it partnered with Oasis SiliconSystems with the goal of leveraging silicon and software technology from both companies to release reference platforms optimised for a series of in-car telematics applications, including gateways and rear-seat infotainment systems.
At the core of the architecture for each of these reference platforms is one of the QuickMIPS family of programmable system-on-a-chip devices and Oasis' Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) networking devices.
ViXS announced several new partners and customers that have integrated ViXS' MIPS-based XCode II video processor and Matrix wireless chip into their next generation displays and media gateway products.
The design wins include Arcadyan (Philips/Accton), Daewoo Electronics, Gemtek Technologies, Nexgen Mediatech (Chi-Mei Corporation) and Toshiba.
Collectively, these deals highlight the demand for highly efficient processing and encoding technologies that enable consumers to wirelessly send, display and record video to various devices over a standards-based 802.11 network.
Zoran announced that its Generation9 family of DTV ICs is now in volume production with four of the world's leading digital television and set-top box manufacturers, Funai, JVC, Pioneer and Sony.
Also, Zoran announced that Toshiba is using the Generation9 at the heart of its powerful new Advanced Digital Media Server platform, the first home server to combine all the major capabilities of home electronics and PCs in one powerful server product for the digital home.
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