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News Release from: Alphamosaic
Subject: VideoCore II
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 June 2004

Multimedia core steps up a grade

Following the widespread adoption of VideoCore technology in mobile phone and portable multimedia product designs, Alphamosaic has developed the advanced VideoCore II processing engine.

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Following the widespread adoption of VideoCore technology in mobile phone and portable multimedia product designs, Alphamosaic has developed the advanced VideoCore II processing engine. To be used at the heart of a new family of mobile multimedia processors, VideoCore II offers unprecedented levels of performance with the lowest power consumption in the industry. Like its predecessor VideoCore II consists of a fully programmable highly parallel video-processing core.

Optimisation of this proven architecture has resulted in a core capable of 8 billion complex operations per second.

Able to decode H.264 QVGA video at 30frame/s, it is ideal for the new generation of handheld TV products using the DVB-H, ISDB-T and DMB standards.

The parallel nature of the architecture means that video encode and decode can be done in very few instruction cycles with minimum power consumption right up to VGA resolution.

The new VideoCore II-based family of integrated circuits will offer the highest levels of performance and integration, with variants for fully featured media players and others optimised for multimedia-enabled mobile phones.

Full programmability and software compatibility with VideoCore will be preserved, while Alphamosaic's investment in software development will ensure that the latest codecs are always available as part of a complete mobile multimedia solution.

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