Philips Chip Unit Debuts Multiple-Service Silicon.(chip can power set-top box services)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, October, 2000 by STUMP, MATT
Philips Semiconductors said it developed a new, sub-$50 silicon chip that can power the many services that cable operators want to deliver through advanced digital set-tops. The "PNX 8500 Nexperia Home Entertainment Engine" combines media processing and CPU processing -- heretofore handled separately -- into a single device, said Mark Samuel, Nexperia marketing director at Philips.
"This is a major breakthrough," he said. Cable operators would be able to offer a panoply of services -- interactive television, video-on-demand, MP3 downloads, streaming video, personal video recording, advanced electronic program guides, shopping, high-speed Internet access, gaming, video electronic-mail and IP telephony -- through the new chip, Philips said. ...
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