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Newport Media and ALPS Announce Mass Production of World's First ISDB-T Module Based on 65nm System-on-Chip (SoC) TechnologyBARCELONA, Spain --(Business Wire)-- Newport Media, an innovative fabless semiconductor company supplying products to the mobile broadcast media industry, today announced that ALPS has formally qualified Newport Media's 65nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) single-chip solution and has begun high-volume, mass production of the modules for Japan's Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) digital television standard. The ALPS ISDB-T module integrates the NMI325 SoC in wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) along with a UHF band filter, crystal and passive components to create an entire ISDB-T receiver subsystem that simplifies the customers' handset designs while conserving precious board space. "The Japanese cellular telephone is the most demanding application for ISDB-T receiver modules," said Kazuhiko Ueda, engineering group manager of ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD. "Newport Media's single die ISDB-T solution enables ALPS to provide customers with a best-in-class module from a performance and size perspective while using very cost effective construction technology which our handset customers find very attractive." For additional information about the NMI325-based ALPS module, please visit Newport Media in Hall 2 Booth F07 at the Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) in Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2010. About Newport Media, Inc. Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions for emerging mobile TV broadcast standards. Newport Media has assembled a management and development team with comprehensive system semiconductor experience in wireless handset and digital set-top box industries. Newport Media's development team leverages its collective experience in these converging industries to develop broadcast multimedia architectures and IC implementations with unprecedented performance, power consumption, size and cost. For more information, visit www.newportmediainc.com. Newport Media is a trademark of Newport Media, Inc. All rights reserved. |
