STMicroelectronics Announces Ultra-HDp60 STB Chips For The Chinese Market

(RTTNews) - STMicroelectronics (STM), a semiconductor company, Tuesday said it is addressing the Chinese Ultra HDp60 market with its newly revealed quad-core system-on-chip ICs (STiH314/318 and STiH414/418), part of the company's Cannes/ Monaco family.

Several major equipment OEMs have already selected these SoCs for next-generation Ultra-HD products.

Key performance capabilities of these chipsets enable decoding up to Ultra HD HEVC at 60 frames/sec with 10-bit color-depth streams coming from all main video-encoder providers; as well as decoding AVS+ and VP9 at 60 frames/sec. All these video streams are displayed using the latest-generation HDMi2.0 at 6Gbps.

The quad-core SoCs are software compatible and pin coherent with the other members of the Cannes and Monaco families. This will allow customers to reuse their development efforts across the entire family and manage a smooth transition between Full HD and Ultra HD installations while leveraging a large ecosystem of middleware and 3rd-party applications.