LONDON — Silicon Hive BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), a licensor of inner-loop processors, has demonstrated high-definition H.264 video codec running in software on its processor architecture.
The company, which raised $7 million in October 2008, has been applying its parallel processing expertise increasingly to video applications over the last year.
"Our architecture is scalable and allows us to throw 600-GOPS at the problem," said Tony Ricard, vice president of marketing. "We are working on the VSS product with a leading television — and other product — company which has licensed the technology, taped out and run the codec on production run silicon."
Picard said he could not name the licensee at this time. "I am anticipating a product launch for an internet-connected TV at CES," he said. The Consumer Electronics Show is scheduled to take place Jan. 7 to 10, 2010. "The company is going to do field trials in China within the next few weeks."
Picard said that Silicon Hive has both licensing and royalty revenues and the company's licensees include Intel, ST, ST-Ericsson, LSI, Philips, Magnachip and Posdata.
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