PHILPS silicon chip tuner to become the preferred component manufacturers

According to the well-known market research firm InStat data show that in August this year, Royal PHILPS Electronics (NYSE transaction code: PHG, AEX: PHI) occupied the largest market share of 38% in silicon tuner PC TV, shipments of the company in 2005 up to 4 million silicon tuner chip. At the same time, the entire market grew 50% in the year, which means that the gateways family of Internet users need to be connected (home) market has gradually formed. Overall, PHILPS has become the market leader in Silicon Chip Tuner, in the past three years produced a total of 50 million components, including PC and set-top boxes, including a variety of applications. PHILPS will be the leading industry in the application of semiconductor technology to the PC TV market, the main purpose is to provide consumers with seamless content sharing between TV and PC. Silicon tuner will consider the application in PC has multiple front-end, so that consumers can enjoy the personal video recorder (Personal Video Recording; PVR), multi channel video and through satellite and cable TV to watch the global television program. With two sets of tuners, the two channels can be demodulated simultaneously (demodulate). As a result, consumers will be able to watch a column on the PC at the same time, another record on the hard disk. In addition, the low power consumption of the PHILPS silicon chip tuner, to extend the time to watch the TV laptop, which is very important for the mobile family.

Pinnacle Systems, vice president of marketing and business in Europe David Barnby said: PHILPS silicon tuner TDA8275A has brought great benefits to Pinnacle Systems in the highly competitive PC TV card market development board DVB-T tuner function and bodies of this product required for the response to the rapidly growing market of the product and the analog TV receiver products have great help. The use of technological breakthroughs will enable Pinnacle System to remain competitive in the market for multimedia cards.

PHILPS semiconductor TV front-end solutions marketing manager Robert Murray said: PHILPS silicon tuner is designed for PC manufacturers to simplify the process of design, accelerate the time to market, reduce the cost of design and reduce the circuit area, which will enable our customers to gain advantage in the rapid development of the global market, such as PC TV market.

PHILPS's Silicon Chip Tuner family products include TDA8271A, TDA8274A, TDA18275A, TDA8262, TDA8263, and TDA8290 Digital IF demodulation. PHILPS's second generation Silicon Chip Tuner supports multiple standards for analog broadcasting. By integrating the channel decoder into a system design such as TDA10046A, PC can accept analog and digital TV signals simultaneously. PHILPS's Silicon Chip Tuner can also be matched with the video / audio decoder SAA7131.

Price and supply

PHILPS silicon tuner is currently in production. If the purchase amount is 10000, the price may be less than $5 per,