Samsung has a digital TV receiver chip which is designed to allow TVs for the US market to receive both vestigial sideband (VSB) broadcasts and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) cable signals.
The chip operates on “20 per cent less power than competing devices on the market today, making it well suited for portable products such as the USB Dongle or USB box,” said the supplier.
“From the third quarter of this year, we expect to install the new device in digital TVs bound for the American market, strengthening our competitiveness and standing there,” said Dr. Do Jun Rhee, v-p in the system LSI business at Samsung Electronics.
The S5H1411 is a 65nm chip which is available in the 100-pin thin quad flat pack (14x14mm) or 100-ball fine-pitch ball grid array (8x8mm) packages.
Market research firm Display Search estimates world digital TV demand to reach 87 million units this year and to climb to 147 million units by 2011.