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Groups team for Chinese PC TV reference designs
The companies have started developing deigns based on Mirics' FlexiRF tuner technology and Spreadtrum's demodulator and decoder SoC. The platform will support the Chinese Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.
The PC TV reference platform is expected to be sampling to selected customers by the end of this year.
The deal is described as a "strategic partnership" through with the two companies will develop complete hardware and software reference platforms.
The companies are also partnering on cellular handset reference designs for "select" ODMs and OEMs.
The deal is a second major one in the Far East this year for Mirics, which said in September it had won its first design-in for its FlexiTV multiband receiver chip, from Taiwanese wireless module specialist AzureWave Technologies, which is also using it in a part being readied for PC TV receivers.
AzureWave (Taipei) is working with several ODMs who will use the module in a range of notebook and laptop PCs that will be shipping by the middle of next year.
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