EETimes.com - Camera phones to remain hot

This EETimes.com article quotes a study by IC Insights that camera phone shipments will increase from 225 million units in 2004, to 365 million units in 2005, to 475 million in 2006, to 600 million in 2007, to 780 million by 208.

Embedded.com - New technologies target streaming wireless IP-based home networks

STMicroelectronics talks about their MPEG-2 and H.264 IPs for encoding/decoding/transcoding, WLAN, and DRM. See Embedded.com - New technologies target streaming wireless IP-based home networks

Embedded.com - China's first native CPU slogs on

Embedded.com - China's first native CPU slogs on talks about a China copmany named BLX making MIPS-like CPUs. They are not low-power designs; so not of significant interest to chips for mobile devices like ours.

Embedded system-on-chip value linked to software

This article talks about the importance of software in modern SoC. Notable quote: "Beyond hardware, an SoC also needs a hardware-software binding layer, an RTOS, middleware and applications." See Embedded system-on-chip value linked to software.

Video/Imaging DesignLine | HD camcorder on-chip, using 4GB flash, enables $800 still/video hybrids

This is EE Times report on Ambarella's H.264 encoder: Video/Imaging DesignLine | HD camcorder on-chip, using 4GB flash, enables $800 still/video hybrids

EETimes.com - MOBILE SILICON: Multimedia processors arm for price, feature race

EE Times reporting on Mobilic!!!! See EETimes.com - MOBILE SILICON: Multimedia processors arm for price, feature race.

EETimes.com - Philips tunes in U.S. market with mobile TV device

In this EE Times article (see EETimes.com - Philips tunes in U.S. market with mobile TV device), Philips is announcing a system-in-package (SIP) device that integrates a TV tuner with a DVB-H demodulator, and is selling in the range of $10~$12 only!

MercuryNews.com | 12/12/2005 | Chip joins camcorder, digital camera

Ambarella picked the same day to announce their H.264 encoder. See the Mercury News article here

Mobilic Introduces New Multimedia SoC Processor Family: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Our first press release! See Mobilic Introduces New Multimedia SoC Processor Family: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Video/Imaging DesignLine | TI’s DaVinci digital video SoCs show off its technology muscle

DaVinci digital video SoCs by TI

Video/Imaging DesignLine | Telcos’ Ambitious IPTV Rollouts Place Premium on Set-Top Box Codec Flexibility

Nice article about IPTV: Video/Imaging DesignLine | Telcos’ Ambitious IPTV Rollouts Place Premium on Set-Top Box Codec Flexibility