FrEdE, Everywhere I go to read something about something now I run into WIND. Keep an ear out for them.
Open Q. How strong a player is WIND in the digital video arena?
They put money into TVia.
Wind River Announces Strategic Investment in Tvia Inc. to Increase Demand for Set-Top Box Technology
windriver.com
Perhaps CUBE was/is a customer?
The 30 VARs include Adobe for postscript printers; Cisco for cable modems; C-Cube for DVD and DVR; Flashpoint for digital cameras; Hewlett-Packard for web-management, Info-Gear (Cisco) for internet appliances, Intel for Intelligent I/O; Liberate for set top boxes; LSI Logic for Digital TV, DVD, digital cameras; Lucent for VOIP; Motorola for digital TV; ST Microelectronics for set top boxes; Telecruz for digital TV, Texas Instruments for DSP processor, and others
siliconinvestor.com
From WIND site...
Key Customers
Kenwood
Matsushita
Motorola
NEC
Philips
Pioneer
Sanyo
Sharp
Sony
Thomson
Toshiba
Key Technology Partners
C-Cube
Intel
Liberate
LSI Logic
Sarnoff
ST Microelectronics
Sun
Teralogic
Texas Instruments
Processors Supported
Intel StrongARM
Hitachi SH
ARM Ltd. ARM
NEC MIPS
STM ST20
Teralogic TL
C-Cube Ignition
MOT and WIND
Motorola and Wind River Team Up to Provide Digital TV Solution for the TV and Set Top Box Markets
Motorola delivers MDTV solution with Wind River´s VxWorks;
Reducing Time-to-Market for OEMs
CHANDLER Ariz. /ALAMEDA Calif. November 13, 2000 – Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) and Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) today announced that Motorola has become a value-added reseller (VAR) of Wind River by integrating Motorola´s MCT5100 M-DTV™ module and Wind River´s VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS)--a market-leading RTOS for embedded development. The solution allows OEMs to develop digital TV products and set top box products with improved time to market. The MCT5100 module is based upon Motorola´s digital television (DTV) chipset and provides an OEM module that can receive all ATSC DTV formats and convert them for display on a standard television set. The module will enable consumers to receive DTV and high-definition television (HDTV) broadcasts using affordable digital set-top boxes and DTVs. This DigitalDNA™ solution will assist Motorola´s customers in shortening design-time on television-related applications and is available immediately.
This solution arrives at an ideal time, as the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Committee
What their site says...
Consumer Appliances
Internet Screen Phones, Digital Cameras, Set-top Boxes, PDAs, DVD Players, Wireless Phones, Digital TV...
5%-10%
~$10M
General Instrument, Pace, Pioneer, Kenwood, Sharp, Sony, Phillips, Dolby Laboratories... |
