ATI Ships 5M+ HDTV Chips

ATI's Digital Television division shipped more than 5 million chips for HD (high-definition) TVs and HD cable and terrestrial set-top boxes.

In addition, ATI announced market leadership in ATSC/OpenCable silicon solutions with an ATI-estimated 85% market share for THEATER and NXT demodulators and a 40% market share for XILLEON MPEGdecoders and display processors.   ATI’s NXT, THEATER and XILLEON chips enable consumer electronics manufacturers to create a wide variety of products that feature exceptional reception andvideo display performance.  Manufacturers also have access to ATI’s extensive software support and reference designs to help them bring to market unique products that conform to worldwideindustry standards.   Leading manufacturers of HD TVs and HD set-top boxes using ATI chips include:    
Changhong
Coship
Funai (Sylvania)
Hisense
Hitachi
JVC
Mitsubishi
Matsushita (Panasonic)
Philips
Scientific-Atlanta
Samsung
Sanyo
Sony
TiVo
Toshiba
Thomson / TTE (RCA)
USDTV
Xoceco (PRIMA)
 
“ATI is providing consumer electronics manufacturers with the industry’s best performing DTV and set-top chipsets,” said Daniel Eiref, director of marketing for DTV Products, ATI Technologies Inc.”ATI’s corporate commitment to research and development in digital television technologies is enabling our customers to deliver brilliant products while at the same time meeting the United StatesFederal Communications Commission mandated conversion to integrated digital reception.”
 
ATI’s product family for digital TVs and set-top boxes includes:
* NXT2003/NXT2004/NXT2005 – cost-effective VSB/QAM/OpenCable reception
* THEATER 310/THEATER 313 – the world’s best performing VSB/QAM/OpenCable reception
* XILLEON 210VC – the only ATSC/OpenCable system-on-chip with integrated VSB and MPEG
* XILLEON 226 – the world’s most popular and best performing dual high-definition MPEG decoder with integrated display processor