Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM - News), a leader in digital media processing for consumer appliances, today announced the SMP8630 series of secure media processors, representing the industry's first chipsets to integrate support of high-definition (HD) decoding in all major formats including H.264, WMV9/VC1 and MPEG-2. The new SMP8630 series of chipsets will be offered in two configurations and will provide comprehensive content security measures with extensive digital rights management (DRM) support. At this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sigma will showcase its SMP8630 series at the Sigma hospitality suite located at the Hilton Hotel.
"Simply stated, the SMP8630 series is the most significant product Sigma has ever introduced," said Ken Lowe, VP of strategic marketing. "Addressing the market requirements for IPTV set-tops, HD-DVD players, and other applications, this chip provides a no compromise solution with high definition decoding, supporting all major audio/video codecs, and a robust content security system. Furthermore, this is a fully integrated system-on-chip (SOC) solution with a 300 MHz MIPS CPU, peripherals, and the most mature embedded software suite available for streaming video applications."
