COLOGNE, Germany, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ANGA
COM -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global
innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless
communications, today announced its next-generation Ultra High
Definition (Ultra HD) home gateway and set-top box (STB)
system-on-chip (SoC) solution. The BCM7445S continues Broadcom's
leadership in Ultra HD technology by increasing 4K video decode
efficiency for a 25 percent reduction in video bandwidth usage and
the addition of VP9p60 decode support.1
With this new offering, operators can introduce new Ultra HD
features such as 60 frame per second content on YouTube, four HD
picture-in-picture options and faster performance in graphics-rich
user interfaces. For more news, visit Broadcom's
Newsroom.
"Broadcom's new offering anticipates operators' need for an
enhanced, multi-tasking Ultra HD home gateway that simultaneously
delivers a variety of content formats," said Rich Nelson, Broadcom Senior Vice President of
Marketing, Broadband & Connectivity Group. "With a powerful
quad-core ARM processor that provides quad transcode and flexible
content format support, Broadcom's new flagship Ultra HD device
paves the way for content providers to offer even more high-quality
content as demand for 4K increases."
The BCM7445S builds on the success of Broadcom's Ultra HD
portfolio, which has been leveraged by more than a dozen operators
and OEMs worldwide. At the same time as pay TV operators move
towards Ultra HD services, consumer adoption of Ultra HD sets is
expected to double, with 27.5 million Ultra HD sets expected to
ship in 2015 and more than 100 million in the marketplace by
2018.2 Operators and streaming service providers
across the globe are expected to pick up the pace this year in
rolling out Ultra HD services to their subscriber base.
Broadcom's BCM7445S can achieve more video transcoding through
the integration of new proprietary video processing technology and
on-chip hardware-based IP switching, ultimately making Ultra HD
more affordable for operators to deploy. The new SoC also adds
support for Google's VP9 codec, which will allow users to stream 4K
YouTube content to their set-top boxes and display to a TV. The VP9
codec provides up to 50 percent bitrate reduction for comparable
quality as compared to the previous VP8 standard and enables a
significant new source of Ultra HD content in this rapidly growing
market.
Key Features of the BCM7445S
- Industry-leading quad-core Brahma15 21k DMIPS ARMv7 CPU with
unique hardware sandboxing
- Industry's only SoC with four 1080p30 real-time transcoders
supporting full HD viewing on mobile device
- HEVC and VP9 compression that delivers resolution up to full
Ultra HD 4096x2160p60
- Web domain security to protect critical core network functions
from malware threats
- HDMI 2.0 transmit and receive with HDCP 2.2
Resources
1 As compared to Broadcom's
previous generation Ultra HD system-on-a chip (SOC).
2 Strategy Analytics, March
2015.
Availability
Broadcom's BCM7445S is currently
sampling.
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About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is
a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired
and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver
voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office
and mobile environments. With one of the industry's broadest
portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom
is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more
information, go to www.broadcom.com.
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408-922-7877
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