The chip demodulates DVB-H, DVB-T, Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB), Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) and MediaFlo, among other standards.

The NMI310 combines a quad-band, direct-conversion radio, a DVB-H demodulator and all necessary memory. The device receives up to eight channels simultaneously and achieved a power consumption of 20 milliwatts. Several features optimize the user viewing experience, including 55-dB of adjacent channel rejection.

The Sundance H NMI310 chip is available in sample quantities and is priced at $8 each in OEM quantities of 10,000 units. The device is manufactured using 0.13-micron CMOS process technology and packaged in conventional fine-pitch plastic ball grid array (FBGA) as well as chip-scale packaging. Volume production is scheduled to commence in the third calendar quarter of 2007.

"We have been developing digital mobile TV system and semiconductor technology since the companys inception, and have now introduced the industrys most highly integrated and commercially mature DVB-H/DVB-T solution," said Mohy Abdelgany, president and chief executive officer of Newport Media, in a statement. "Single-chip integration has been the last major obstacle in our DVB-H development, and reaching this significant milestone allows us to provide our customers with a superior performing solution combined with a structural cost advantage."

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