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Chips&Media, Inc., is a provider of multimedia SoC IP technology with core expertise on video IP, offering multi-codec video IP solutions for smartphones, digital TVs, set-top boxes, digital cameras, video surveillance and automotive.
Since 2003, as a first mover as video IP licensor, the firm has been developing a series of IP solutions including video codecs, video frame buffer compression and video/image post-processing for high performance multimedia digital devices.
Its video IP cores, BODA, CODA and WAVE, cover a full line of video standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264/AVC, VC-1, RealVideo, AVS, MVC, VP8, Sorenson, Theora, AVS, AVS+, HEVC(H.265) and VP9 from CIF to 4K/8K resolutions. Their video codec technologies are used by more than 80 licensees including Freescale, VIA, Realtek and Novatek Innofidei, Telechips.
The company announced to expand video codec focused portfolio to image signal processing.