IBM Microelectronics said it has ported and certified OpenTV Corp.'s interactive-television software for PowerPC-based chipsets that are intended for next-generation set-top boxes and ITV applications.(interactive television)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, August, 2001

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - IBM Microelectronics said it has ported and certified OpenTV Corp.'s interactive-television software for PowerPC-based chipsets that are intended for next-generation set-top boxes and ITV applications. Introduced in March 2000, IBM's PowerPC set-top box silicon is presently housed in Philips Consumer Electronics Co.-built TiVo Inc.

stand-alone personal video recorder boxes. IBM's STB03xxx runs at 162 megahertz and combines a PowerPC processor, an MPEG2 (Moving Pictures Experts Group) audio/video decoder and a memory-interface subsystem on one piece of silicon. IBM has yet to strike silicon deals with the two largest cable set-top vendors in the U.S.: Motorola Broadband Communications Sector and Scientific Atlanta Inc.