Chips&Media's 'WAVE' IP Successfully Enters the Global Mobile Market

August 27, 2025 -- WAVE, video multi-CODEC HW IP from Chips&Media, is being deployed to global mobile market this August. This remarkable achievement is the result of the multi-year collaboration with one of leading mobile handset makers in Android industry, and WAVE is playing the irreplaceable key roles to deliver the best video capture and playback experience. 

Key notes:

• All the video standard from MPEG and AOM such as AVC, HEVC, VP9 and AV1
• Industry best encoder quality and 4K/8K performance at 30fps and 60fps
• Extreme low power consumption and flexible HW & SW architecture
• Multimedia IP subsystem including pre/post processor

WAVE, video CODEC HW IP, has been serving video industry for more than 20 years in variety of markets such as Automotive, Compute, Mobile, IOT and Server, and the performance, quality and power & area efficiency have been improved and proven by working with global leading manufacturers worldwide. 

After multiple generations of commercialization and deployment, Chips&Media is now serving industry mostly by WAVE6 and WAVE6 Gen2 Plus. The video IP applied to this global deployment is WAVE6 that serves all major standards including AV1 from AOM and 4K60fps performance with power & area efficiency that can meet the budget of edge device like premium tier handset. Flexible HW & SW architecture of WAVE6 enables all capture and playback use cases by single & multi-camera configuration and contributes the handset to fulfill the requirements from Android, YouTube and Netflix to guarantee the best user experience with the device itself as well as OTT applications.

WAVE series has been evolving to deliver industry leading quality, performance, power vs. area efficiency. On top of those, WAVE6 Gen2 Plus is being prepared to deliver ISO26262, FUSA, to Automotive market especially for ADAS (advanced driver assistance system). The level will be ASIL-B, and its release is scheduled for 2Q 2026.

A summary of key features of the latest WAVE series, WAVE6 and WAVE6 Gen2 Plus, is as below.

About Chips&Media, Inc.

Chips&Media is a multimedia IP leader offering HW video codec IP, image processing NPU, lossless/lossy frame buffer compression IP & others. Since 2003, Chips&Media has exclusively focused on the HW video codec IP industry. It has powered over 3,000,000,000 units in the market, adopted by more than 150 semiconductor companies. Chips&Media's video codec IP supports all major and legacy formats from 1080p up to 8K 120fps, including HEVC/H.265, AVC/H.264, AV1, VP9, APV, VVC, JPEG & others.

The recent introduction of our image processing NPU IP is transforming Chips&Media into a premium multimedia IP provider. It is custom NPU designed to work for imaging application at high-quality and high-resolution in edge devices. For more information, please visit our website at www.chipsnmedia.com