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DVDINSIDER: STMicroelectronics Passes the 100 Million Mark for Set-Top Box OMEGA MPEG-2 Chips
DVD News, January, 2003
DVD News 01-07-2003 DVD NEWS-7 January 2003-DVDINSIDER: STMicroelectronics Passes the 100 Million Mark for Set-Top Box OMEGA MPEG-2 Chips STMicroelectronics is the first chip supplier to cumulatively ship over 100 million units of MPEG-2 devices to STB manufacturers. This latest success underlines ST's continuous leadership in enabling the creation and development of the STB market, which set new records for market ramp-up in the consumer industry, passing the 10 and 100 million unit marks faster than any previous consumer phenomena such as VCRs, PCs and audio CDs.
ST pioneered the MPEG-2 chips used in STBs when it introduced the first Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) processor chip in 1988 and the first motion estimation processor chip in 1990. Motion...
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