Frontier Silicon says it has been shipping mobile TV chipsets across South Korea, China and Germany in time for the World Cup.

The firm said it had shipped over a million of its Apollo IC which is a mobile TV RF front end, and the Kino baseband processor.

Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon, said: “Based on the numbers shipped so far, we are the leading chipset supplier into mobile TV phones. With the planned expansion of commercial mobile TV rollouts we expect continued growth in our sales volume moving forwards. Multi-region and multi-band support have been the most significant factors in our success in getting our chips deployed in mass production handsets.”

Frontier’s chips are shipping in Samsung’s mobile handsets. In Q3 Frontier said it would have samples of its latest multi-standard IC for DVB-H and T-DMB.

Mobile TV in South Korea, Beijing and Guangdong will run on Band-III, while Shanghai and Germany will run on the L-Band.