Date: 02/06/2010

Internet-video HDTV processor from SiS supports Google's Android 2.0

Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has unveiled a new internet-video HDTV processor, SiS365 iTV supporting the web-browsing and variously customized widgets based on Google Android 2.0 OS. The SiS365 iTV platform provides a complete internet surfing environment. SiS also customizes globalized widgets such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Pandora, Weather, USA today, US traffic, Google Finance, and ebay, etc for various end users, in addition to enthu1 jun 10siasts.

The SiS365 is said to address the need of larger computing power and graphic rendering for the Internet application. It consists of 800MHz 32-bit microprocessor, 32 bit DDRII-800 memory subsystem, and 226MHz OpenGL ES 1.1 compliance graphic engine. This HDTV processor is compatible for playing online video streaming, or flash-based media playing. It also has a 226MHz Universal Video Decoding Engine (UVDE) capable of parsing the MPEGII, H.264, MPEG4(Xvid), RMVB, and VC1/WMV9 complaint streams. It also integrates a Universal Audio Decoding Engine (UADE) capable of parsing the AAC-LC/HE-AAC/MPEG2-AAC, MPEG1 L1/L2/L3(MP3), AC3/EAC3, and PCM/ADPCM complaint streams thus supporting audio features as well. It integrates 7th generation Digital Native Video Engine (DNVETM) technology to provide high quality display, they are further processed by the Content Detected 3D noise reduction, Motion adaptive De-interlacing, and frame-based dynamic contrast enhancement, etc.

"The future of the consumer electronics industry is towards the universal/scalable internet video devices to ensure higher interoperability and consistent user experience. With the advent of SiS365 iTV, SiS has made its first step towards this tremendous vision", said Michael Chen, President of SiS. "SiS is very committed to continuing enhancing the performance and user experience of internet video TV with various customized widgets that will allow users and system vendors to enjoy the best quality at a reasonable price."

Availability:
Engineering samples for the SiS 365 iTV processor family is available now. Volume production is expected in third quarterof 2010.