SiRF have announced their latest platform, SiRFatlasIV, a chipset which bundles one of the company’s GPS receivers with a multimedia processor. Intended to be used in mobile devices, the chipset offers both the same 64-channel location system as in their standalone SiRFprima receiver, and a 500MHz ARM11 processor for application and video crunching.
Soon we’ll get to see a cheaper and better video scaler and deinterlacer on Blu-ray player, standalone video processor or your AV receiver. Anchor Bay has announced the release of the ABT1030, a new video-processing IC designed for low cost format-conversion applications in STB, DVD, AVR, and Blu-ray player/recorders.



