Exec details ST's ARM Cortex-A9 licensing choice for HDTVs

Anne-Francoise Pele, EETimes
(10/29/2009 2:01 PM EDT)

PARIS — In an interview with EE Times, Laurent Remont, director, R&D/Architecture Group, Home Entertainment and Displays Group at STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland), provided details on ST's decision to build its next-generation HDTV consumer device around the high-performance ARM architecture.

The flexibility, software ecosystem, processing performances and power consumption efficiencies of ARM Cortex-A9 multicore processor were determinant in ST's licensing choice for its next-generation set-top-box and digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) ICs, said Remont.

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