Chips&Media Ships over 20million Unit SoCs

Chips&Media’s technology is proven in today’s application SoC.

January 19, 2010  - Chips&Media, Inc., the leading provider of video Intellectual property (IP) cores, today announced that its Semiconductor partners including Freescale, Mtekvision and top-tier semiconductor companies in Korea, have shipped over 20 million system-on-chips(SoCs) integrated into smart phones, mobile internet devices(MIDs), smart books, portable media players(PMPs), digital televisions(DTVs) and set-top boxes(STBs).

Chips&Media’s video IP core families deliver the high performance at ultra low power and also support a wide range of formats including H.264, MPEG-1/2/4, VC-1, DivX, H.263, RealVideo and AVS up to full HD(1920x1080) resolution. Especially its HD technologies have been recognized worldwide as one of the best video processing solutions and now deployed by over 30 partners for more than 50 of their HD-capable products.

The global trend toward outsourcing in SoC development enables chip makers to accelerate time-to-market while reducing costs and easy to add new features and functions. According to Gartner, the market for third-party semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and chip design services will grow to $4.8 billion by 2012.

 “Chips&Media creates video solutions to meet the growing market needs for consumers from mobile to Home consumer devices. Its technology has a proven track record in video processing capabilities.” Said Steve Kim, CEO of Chips&Media,Inc. “Chips&Media’s IP can be used to bring added value to the SoC partners with its successful experiences.” 

About Chips&Media

Chips&Media,Inc. (Chips&Media) is a leading video IP provider based in Seoul, Korea (Republic of). Chips&Media’s video codec technologies cover the full line-up of video standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264/AVC, VC-1, RealVideo and AVS from D1 to Full HD resolution. Its advanced ultra low power multi-codec video IP has been chosen by more than 40 top-tiers based in US, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan and has been proven in silicon reaching 25 millions of units.

For more information, please visit www.chipsnmedia.com.