New Delhi, March 21, 2012 - Renesas Electronics Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), and Indieon Technologies today announced the launch of a best-priced H.264/MPEG4 HD and SD digital set- top box (STB) developed based on Renesas’ EMMA3SE/P and EMMA3SL2/LP system-on-chips (SoCs) during Convergence India, to be held in New Delhi, India, from March 21-23, 2012.
Renesas’ EMMA3SE/P and EMMA3SL2/LP SoCs are highly-cost optimised, high performance MPEG4 high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) devices that address growing demands of HD and SD solutions to the digital consumer market in India.
“Indieon’s capability of delivering highly cost effective and quality products with strong software development skill makes it a perfect partner combination for Renesas”, says Sunil Dhar, General Manager, India Business, Renesas Electronics Singapore. Adding to his statement he said, “Localized on-time support for Operators, advance middleware solutions required for faster monetization of operators investments, rich graphics user interface (GUI) for enhanced TV viewing experience creates a very special market space for Indieon in a highly competitive and challenging market like India”.
"Renesas EMM3SEP SoC with 612MIPS@400MHz dual core processor is the most compact and highly-integrated, advanced security MPEG4 HD and SD processor in its class available today" said Mr. Adnan Dhuliawala, AGM Business Development at Indieon. "The advanced features available in the platform have enabled us to differentiate and expand our products and services portfolio, while providing an enriching and quality experience to our users. Strong hardware optimization and designing skills, forging a direct relationship with semiconductor & manufacturing partners and leveraging on volume orders, we are able to bring down the cost of the product and offer consumers a very competitive and best-priced MPEG4 HD and SD products from feature-rich Zapper class to high-end HD STBs. Indirectly addressing the growing demands of HD consumers in India to avail a low cost HD STB from their service providers and competitive cost definitely give advantage to increase the quantity of HD boxes deployment in India, continuingly.” he added to his statement.
For more information about Renesas’ EMMA3SE/P and EMMA3SL2/LP products, see http://www.renesas.com/products/soc/assp/av/enc_dec/stb_decode/index.jsp
About Renesas Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), the world's number one supplier of microcontrollers, Renesas Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd. is a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad range of analogue and power devices for the South, South-East Asia and Oceania market. In addition to device sales, the company also provides design services including reference solutions, embedded systems and tools development.
More information can be found at www.renesas.com.
About Indieon Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Indieon Technologies, is India’s only company with end-to-end Set-Top Box delivery capabilities, was established in August 2008. Indieon’s capability includes Hardware Design, Software Development, Product Qualification and Manufacturing. Our mainstay has been our indigenous Middleware Architecture that is reusable and portable across multiple platforms. Indieon has very quickly proven its presence by achieving sales of more than 300 thousand Set-Top Boxes in India.
Optimized processes, an experienced team, end-to-end technology development, right partner selection and strong sourcing capabilities enable us to develop 360-degree, cost-effective solutions. We work closely with leading technology providers, like Conax, Latens, Trident (NXP), Renesas (NEC), ST Micro, Broadcom etc, and offer the best of both worlds, world-class technology at fitting prices. In other words, when a customer comes to Indieon, he gets everything under one roof – complete solutions, complete value and cutting-edge technology.
More information is available at www.indieontech.com.
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