Product category:
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: National Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2001
All's well for Allwell Geode-based
set-top box
Allwell's latest set-top box, the STBII 5012, is based on National Semiconductor's Geode SC1200 processor, a set-top box-on-a-chip solution introduced last September.
Allwell's latest set-top box, the STBII 5012, is based on National Semiconductor's Geode SC1200 processor, a set-top box-on-a-chip solution introduced last September The STBII 5012 is an interactive home entertainment, automation and gateway device that enables Internet access, video-on-demand, email and cyber banking via display on a traditional television
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"At Allwell, our mission is to leverage our rich expertise in designing interactive devices and our experience in broadband technology to develop Internet access devices for the information age", said Andy Lin, vice president of Allwell.
"National's highly integrated single-chip solution supports this objective and enables us to capture this emerging market in the shortest time possible.
We have used National's Geode brand silicon for more than two years for our set top boxes and have sold a few hundred thousand devices.
We have confidence that the single-chip-based set-top boxes will bring further success to our business".
"Our continued relationship with Allwell is a testimony to the advantages of our Geode solutions, offering the optimum power performance at a low cost to our end customers", said David Pederson, director of the set-top box business unit, Information Appliances, National Semiconductor.
"Allwell is well established in the market, developing Internet appliances with multiple features for a wide variety of manufacturers around the world".
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