Infineon, Zoran to develop single-chip decoder for digital TV
[Ooops, Nevin beat me to it! I guess this means that ZRAN is only about 12-18 months behind CUBE?]
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Semiconductor Business News
(02/15/00, 12:46:42 PM EDT)
MUNICH -- Infineon Technologies AG here today announced a joint development
agreement with Zoran Corp. to develop a single-chip decoder for digital TV.
"This international collaborative development project, leveraging Infineon's vast
technology pool and experience in analog and digital TV and Zoran's VLSI and
embedded [software] capabilities, will enable us to reach a new technological
peak," declared Alon Ironi, vice president of engineering at Zoran, based in Santa
Clara, Calif.
Infineon and Zoran said the jointly developed decoder IC will introduce a new level
of integration of video, audio, graphics, communication, processing, and
embedded memory for smart, Internet-connected television sets. Infineon plans to
contribute a range of technologies to the project, including embedded DRAM,
communications systems solutions and analog circuits. Zoran will contribute its
digital signal processing (DSP) technologies for audio and video applications.
The partners said their joint development project will result in a complete system
solution, including a reference platform that will allow OEMs to greatly decrease
time to market.
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