Chip maker C-Cube inks DigiCipher license. (C-Cube Microsystems Inc.; General Instruments DigiCypher)
Multichannel News, March, 1994 by Ellis, Leslie
C-Cube Microsystems, last week joined Motorola Corp. on the list of semiconductor manufacturers licensed by General Instrument Corp. to make dual mode, MPEG-2/DigiCipher II decoders for cable. C-Cube, a Silicon Valley chip maker focused solely on digital video and audio compression since 1988, also announced a supply agreement with Scientific-Atlanta Inc.
for the multimode decoder chip, despite incomplete DigiCipher II licensing negotiations between GI and other set-top manufacturers including S-A and Hewlett Packard Co. Last fall, C-Cube unveiled the first working real-time, MPEG-2 encoder. At last week's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, it added the decoder side: an integrated MPEG/DigiCipher decoder and demultiplexing chip...
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