Scaleo chip and videantis join their technology to strengthen their offer in the fast-growing consumer electronics market

Scaleo chip increases the attractiveness of its offer thanks to the integration of videantis solutions
 
Sophia Antipolis -- September 29, 2006. Scaleo chip the recognized specialist in ARM-based Systems on Chips (SoC), is strengthening its expertise of multicore integration with a technological partnership with videantis, a leading video IPs and software provider for mobile, home entertainment and multimedia applications.
 
“Scaleo chip's proven design flow and unique prototyping technology to achieve highly complex application specific system-on-chip developments for fast time-to-market represent a perfect match for videantis' multistandard video IP solutions offer” says Hans Joachim Stolberg, CEO of videantis. “The combination of Scaleo chip's established system integration expertise and videantis' video and multimedia solutions know-how will give customers a new level of confidence to meet their market windows in the fast-moving consumer electronics market with highly competitive and future-proof designs.”
 
Scaleo chip, thanks to its methodology and its integration tools, allows optimal use of the videantis multistandard video IP technology, offering customers competitive solutions to meet their market requirements. Scaleo chip’s offer also includes a library of more than 200 IPs optimised for each application, such as multimedia, automotive, and telecoms.
 
“The combination of videantis’ advanced video codec expertise and Scaleo chip’s high integration technology will enable Scaleo chip to provide cutting edge technology targeted to video market” said Gilles Marsigne, VP Sales & Marketing at Scaleo chip. ”Moreover, this partnership will strengthen Scaleo’s offer with low power, scalable and cost effective video solutions addressing portable video and home entertainment applications like PMPs or Set-top-boxes. We already experience excellent customer traction and expect this partnership to accelerate Scaleo chip’s revenue growth. “

About videantis GmbH

videantis GmbH (Hannover, Germany) is a leading chip, silicon IP, and software solutions provider for mobile, home, and custom multimedia applications. videantis combines the expertise of an application-adapted, yet fully programmable architecture, an extensive portfolio of optimized applications, and system-on-chip integration services to offer comprehensive one-stop video solutions. Based on its application-optimized processor platform family, videantis licenses multi-standard capable video IP solutions for the most advanced video coding standards including H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, H.263, DivX, WMV9/VC-1, and MPEG-2, and video enhancement.
For more information about videantis, visit www.videantis.com
 
About Scaleo chip
 
Scaleo chip is based in Sophia Antipolis, France. The company is specialized in ARM-based SoCs design and developed a unique expertise in the field of multicore architectures. Scaleo chip's technology can be found at the heart of advanced digital products such as portable video systems, digital TV terminals, video games, imaging systems, wireless communications and telematics.  
For more information about Scaleo chip, visit us at www.scaleochip.com