| AMD predicts multicore future
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2007-06-18 |
| Dave Orton, ATI's former CEO and now AMD's executive VP for Visual and Media Business, talked with EE Times about some of the company's targets and technical hurdles with getting Fusion devices ready for market. He also elaborated on AMD's vision and its progress toward the multicore future. |
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| HDTV interface spec sparks product rollouts
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2007-06-01 |
| Chipmakers are rushing out competitive solutions for the emerging third-generation Serial Digital Interface standard. |
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| Digital cable TV market picks up in China, says report
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2007-05-31 |
| Subscribers to digital cable TV in China hit 14.2 million in Q1, driven by interest in Beijing, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan, according to Analysys International. |
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| Hitachi, Panasonic fortify plasma TV tie-up
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2007-05-28 |
| Hitachi and Matsushita Electric have given weight to a plasma TV business alliance with promises of supplying each other with 103-inch and 85-inch PDPs. |
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| Apple TV: A work in progress
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2007-05-21 |
| Apple TV will certainly appeal to Apple addicts, design enthusiasts and hackers. But the rest of us will be waiting to see what happens next before we plunk down our cash. |
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| LG brings digital HDTV to refrigerators
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2007-05-10 |
| LG Electronics unveiled the first-of-its-kind digital HDTV Refrigerator, which incorporates LG's fifth-generation ATSC-QAM-NTSC DTV tuner that delivers crisp digital broadcast and unscrambled cable images to the refrigerator's 15-inch HD LCD TV screen |
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| Hitachi files PDP patent infringement suit against LG
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2007-04-26 |
| Hitachi, through its Plasma Patent Licensing subsidiary (HPPL), is filing a case against LG saying that the company infringed its plasma-display related patents. |
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| Europe's AVC STB market to flourish, says report
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2007-04-23 |
| Research and Markets estimates that the market shipments for Advanced Video Codec STBs in Europe will grow to 8 million units by 2010, amounting to nearly $700 million. |
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| U.S. concocts mobile TV standard
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2007-04-11 |
| A U.S. digital TV standards group said it will develop a technical standard to allow broadcasters to deliver TV and data to mobile phones and handheld devices over their DTV broadcast signal. |
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| Genesis, Legend deliver DTV platform for China
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2007-04-03 |
| Genesis Microchip and Legend Silicon announced a market-ready DTV platform customized for TV manufacturers to deliver fully featured DTVs to China quickly and cost-effectively. |
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| Research finds HDTV content growing in APAC
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2007-04-03 |
| Despite the barriers holding back the widespread HDTV content delivery in the Asia-Pacific region, total consumer revenue from HDTV content broadcasted in the region will jump from $3.2 billion in 2006 to $8.06 billion by 2012, according to a recent research from In-Stat |
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| TI Fellow details digital micromirror apps
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2007-04-02 |
| Larry Hornbeck, Emmy winner for his invention of the digital micromirror device, told EE Times that TI has still more applications up its sleeve for the digital micromirror. |
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| Hitachi puts removable drives in HDTVs
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2007-03-22 |
| Hitachi has plans to sell the world's first high-definition TVs (HDTV) with removable hard drives, according to a Reuters report |
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| TI to shake up 'corporate culture' and revamp fab strategies
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2007-03-21 |
| Amid stinging losses of its baseband chip monopolies at Docomo, Ericsson and Nokia, Texas Instruments is moving with a new sense of urgency to shake up its corporate culture and revamp its fab and product strategies. |
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| Take distinctive approach to IC verification
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2007-03-16 |
| Richard Goering spoke with Hooman Moshar about Broadcom's distinctive approach to IC verification. |
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| Sony unveils $600 Blu-ray Disc player
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2007-03-02 |
| At its Open House event this week, Sony Electronics unveiled its second Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, BDP-S300, which will hit stores by the middle of the year for about $600. |
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| RGs to overcome triple-play hurdles
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2007-03-01 |
| New technology platforms will provide the foundation for new-generation RG solutions that will enable next-generation services along with the flexibility to differentiate offerings with new, advanced features. |
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| Silicon Image receivers put HDMI 1.3 into midrange TVs
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2007-03-01 |
| Silicon Image Inc. rolled out four chips at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, including two receivers that it said will push the HDMI 1.3 specification into midrange TVs. |
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| UDI demise sparks HDMI-DisplayPort battle
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2007-03-01 |
| With the Unified Display Interface's demise, a new battle to crown a convergence digital display interconnect will play out over the next few years. |
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| Home network remains unconquered
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2007-02-16 |
| Last month's Consumer Electronics Show was brimming with home networking concepts and technologies but in many respects, the digital home is still untamed territory. |
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| Startup demos interface for HDTV video
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2007-02-16 |
| Startup Amimon Ltd has demonstrated a prototype of its wireless high-definition interface for HDTV video at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show using technology based on a variation of 802.11n that can deliver up to 1.5Gbps |
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| Silicon Image licenses Sunplus' DTV technology
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2007-02-08 |
| Silicon Image has entered a $40 million cross-licensing agreement to use and further develop Sunplus Technology's intellectual property for video processors and DTV products. |
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| Global chip sales posts strong growth in 2006
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2007-02-06 |
| Global sales of semiconductors hit $247.7 billion in 2006, up 8.9 percent from $227.5 billion in 2005, reports the Semiconductor Industry Association. |
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| Q4 '06 plasma shipments fell below forecast
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2007-02-05 |
| Panel shipments dropped 4 percent q-o-q while rising just 3 percent y-o-y in Q4 to 2.7 million units, reports DisplaySearch. |
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| Video processors roll for mobile handsets, PMPs
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2007-02-01 |
| Claiming to have solved one of the "grand challenges" of video system design, Tensilica Inc. has introduced a family of software-based video processor engines for mobile handsets and personal media players. |
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| Retired industry pioneer muses on IC trends
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2007-02-01 |
| Epitaxy innovator and SIA founder Wilf Corrigan shares with EE Times his take on the developments in semiconductor business. |
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| TV-on-a-chip simplifies entire DTV design
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2007-02-01 |
| Broadcom Corp. rolled out a "television-on-a-chip" that the company calls the first digital HDTV silicon solution to support full 1,080p display resolution |
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| UCSB researchers tout blue laser diode breakthrough
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2007-01-31 |
| A team of University of California-Santa Barbara researchers have created a new type of blue-violet laser diode that they say could replace the c-plane violet laser diodes used for next-gen DVD formats. |
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| Intel, Samsung back DisplayPort
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2007-01-11 |
| Intel and Samsung officially put their weight behind the Displayport 1.1 specification at a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show. |
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| Verbatim/MKM touts 50Gbyte dual-layer Blu-ray media
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2007-01-11 |
| Verbatim/MKM has started production of 2X speed 50Gbyte dual-layer Blu-ray Recordable and Blu-ray Rewriteable media for shipment to the United States. |
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