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News Release from: MIPS Technologies | Subject: 4KE core
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 October 2004
Core powers up NEC's new DVD recorder
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NEC Electronics Corp has developed a new series of single-chip multimedia devices that integrates a 4KE family core.
NEC Electronics Corp has developed a new series of single-chip multimedia devices that integrates a 4KE family core The uPD61175 product series expands NEC Electronics' deployment of MIPS-based chips and targets the growing DVD recorder market, where the MIPS architecture has a commanding market share of more than 75%
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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For more than a decade, NEC has been a leading proponent of the industry-standard MIPS architecture and has developed innovative, award-winning solutions around both the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures, such as the 64bit VR Series that includes 14 family members with countless design wins.
Today, NEC Electronics' MIPS-based single-chip offerings are shipping to market in a wide range of digital consumer products, such as PVRs and DVD/HDD combination recorders.
The uPD61175 series offers an MPEG A/V decompression engine, graphics bit BLT/ display engine, stream processing engine and other peripherals on a single chip LSI.
Together with a unified memory bus design, the chips enhance the consumer experience by delivering MPEG content to audio and video applications.
"Next-generation applications in the digital entertainment market will undoubtedly require more functionality and more performance on a chip", stated Shigeo Niitsu, Vice President, 2nd System Operations Unit, NEC Electronics Corp.
"We are confident that our MIPS-based single-chip solutions will continue to offer a superior solution platform in the DVD recorder market".
"NEC Electronics' MIPS-based single-chip solutions already have been validated by multiple design wins in the digital consumer space", said Jack Browne, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at MIPS Technologies.
"With these new licenses for cores from our 4KE family, NEC Electronics' customers will continue to benefit from advanced performance and application optimisation".
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