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MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd., a leading provider of high performance connectivity solutions for consumer, industrial and computing applications, announced a new processor for digital content management and routing of audio / video (AV) streams. MosChip's System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is based on an ARM9 processor and is designed as a next generation digital content manager and AV stream router to manage AV streams over 1394 / FireWire and USB connections for fast and reliable storage.

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Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited announced that it has developed a digital HDTV system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates a video processing engine for superior picture quality, and a full high-definition (full HD, 1920 dots x 1080 lines) multi-decoder that decodes both MPEG-2(1) and H.264(2) video compression formats. The new chip, the MB86H70, is aimed for digital TVs receiving high-definition broadcasts that are ramping up in Europe.

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As chips add new functionality and system designs evolve away from boards and toward multi-chip system-on-chip (SoC) architectures, developers of handheld and consumer electronics are faced with stricter pin and package constraints. Texas Instruments Incorporated announced that it is driving the ratification of the IEEE 1149.7 standard, a new two-pin test and debug interface standard that supports half the number of pins of the IEEE 1149.1 technology, allowing developers to easily test and debug products with complex digital circuitry, multiple CPUs and applications software in products such as mobile and handheld communication devices.

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NEC Electronics announced that it began sample shipments of the EMMATM3TL, a new SoC product for full high definition (HD) iDTV supporting the H.264/AVC next-generation video compression standard. EMMA3TL is an image-processing SoC integrating all the functionality needed for digital television on a single chip, including graphics and audio/video decoding.

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Freescale Semiconductor, an industry Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) silicon volume leader, has introduced a cost-effective, highly integrated solution designed to help lower costs for carriers and spur adoption of GPON equipment in markets worldwide.
Built on third generation Freescale PON technology, the MSC7104 is a cost reduced version of the groundbreaking MSC7120 device that has been deployed in large volumes worldwide.

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Renesas Technology Europe announced the availability in Europe of the SuperH 1 Family SH77650, a SoC product providing image recognition processing functions for vehicle information terminals, such as next-generation car navigation systems, and peripheral devices to assist-safe driving.

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NXP Semiconductors announced that Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc., one of the world's leading PC TV receiver manufacturers, has selected the NXP SAA7164E PC TV system-on-chip (SOC), as well as its latest generation silicon tuner TDA18271HD, to power the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 PCI Express tuner a unique dual hybrid PC TV tuner for the North American market with hardware encoding, recently awarded the PC Magazine Editor's Choice award. With the WinTV-HVR-2250, users can watch a digital or analog TV program on their PC screen, while watching, pausing, or recording a second program of any type at the same time. The Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 supports popular analog and digital TV formats used in North America, including NTSC analog terrestrial and cable TV, over-the-air ATSC high-definition digital TV, plus clear QAM digital cable TV.

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Infineon Technologies, a leading provider of communication ICs, introduced the VINETIC-SVIP, a new family of devices developed for next-generation VoIP access applications. By enhancing the mature and field-proven technology currently offered in Infineon's low power, high-performance VINETIC and SLIC products, the VINETIC-SVIP family of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions provide unsurpassed density and scalability.

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Fujitsu Microelectronics and Jurong Technologies industrial Corporation are pleased to announce that Jurong Technologies, through its subsidiary I-Sirius Pte Ltd, has selected Fujitsu as its WiMAX baseband SoC partner. I-Sirius will use Fujitsu's Mobile WiMAX baseband SoC, which is fully compliant with IEEE802.16e-2005 standard, to develop WiMAX products such as embedded modules, USB dongles and Express cards.

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Power Architecture™ processor, backed by mobileGT® Linux starter kit, designed to reduce cost and time-to-market for industrial applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Embedded Systems Conference) – April 14, 2008 – Expanding its Power Architecture™ technology processors for the embedded industry, Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a highly integrated dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) device. The latest member of Freescale's mobileGT® processor family, the MPC5123 device is designed to simplify embedded Linux® OS-based product development and reduce power requirements and system cost for industrial and consumer applications.

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