Philips targets video communications
with new TriMedia product operation
ANAHEIM, Calif.--At the TeleCon trade show here today, Philips
Semiconductors plans to announce the creation of a Video Communications
Product Sector within its TriMedia Product Group to support video
telephony applications for the TriMedia processor.
Philips said it is now working with more than 15 OEMs to develop video
telephony applications based on the TriMedia processor. The Video
Communications unit will provide silicon and software to major customers
with the first products expected to be announced in the first quarter in 1998,
according to the Dutch chip maker.
"For the first time, a single low-cost processor provides the computational
power to support video and audio encode, decode and communications
processing on a single chip," said Fuad Abu Nofal, who has been named
general manager of the TriMedia Video Communications operation, which is
based in Sunnyvale, Calif. "We believe the TriMedia processor, along with
more sophisticated video compression software, will enable a new
generation of consumer video phones that work on existing analog phone
lines. A TriMedia processor is also ideal for ISDN and Internet video
phones."
Philips also announced plans to offer a hardware reference design and video
phone software modules to support development programs for
TriMedia-based video phones.
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Story posted at 10:30 a.m. EST/7:30 a.m. PST, 11/5/97 |
