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EETimes Article: SHANGHAI, China — One of China’s major wireline telecom companies, China Netcom, plans to fully implement a domestically developed codec in its fledgling IPTV network. Use of the codec, known as AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard), is a big break for its developers, which have had a hard time selling it to [...]  Chipmaker Texas Instruments unveils semiconductor technology that will lower the cost of producing multimedia phones, says Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta NEW YORK (Fortune) — Less than two years after announcing new semiconductor technology aimed at drastically reducing the cost of making very basic wireless phones, Texas Instruments says it now has developed a similar chip [...] SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8 — A $90 million supercomputer made for nuclear weapons simulation cannot yet be rivaled by a single PC chip for a serious video gamer. But the gap is closing quickly. Indeed, a new breed of consumer-oriented graphics chips have roughly the brute computing processing power of the world’s fastest [...] SAN FRANCISCO — Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. Thurs. (Nov. 9) introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.The battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, competing next-generation DVD standards with powerful backers, has been billed as the next VHS versus Betamax in some corners. [...] NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Shares of Sigma Designs Inc. (SIGM) shot up 15% Wednesday, a day after Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and major television set-top-box makers said advanced system-on-a-chip set-tops were available to support Microsoft’s Internet Protocol television software. All advanced Internet Protocol set-top boxes supporting Microsoft’s IPTV Edition software platform are based on [...] |
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