Big claims for mobile multimedia processor: News from Alphamosaic

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

Having scored a world-first with VideoCore, Alphamosaic has launched the VC02, which it bills as the world's most advanced mobile multimedia processor. The new device can display video on 3.5in colour LCDs and capture 8Mpixel images, making it ideal for watching TV, making videos or taking studio-quality photos on handheld products such as mobile phones. The power efficiency of VC02 will allow many hours of continuous operation on a single battery charge, a unique feature for such a high-performance multimedia chip.

Based on Alphamosaic's new video-processing engine VideoCore II, VC02 is completely programmable and able to handle the full range of audio and video formats.

This makes it ideally suited to the new generation of multimedia-enabled mobile phones as well as solid-state camcorders, handheld digital TV and portable video recorders with miniature hard disk drives.

Alphamosaic CEO Dr Jalal Bagherli said: "Working in close collaboration with our mobile phone VideoCore customers has given us a deep understanding of their multimedia needs.

This has enabled us to design a chip with the optimum feature set for their next generation of products, anticipating the trends in handheld multimedia and video-enabled mobile phones".

VC02 offers a whole range of connectivity options such as USB, SD-Card memory and can even drive a TV or full-size monitor directly.

As the most complete mobile multimedia processor offering the longest battery life, VC02 further establishes the VideoCore family as the industry-standard solution for handheld video and entertainment.

Samples and evaluation boards are available now.

• Alphamosaic: contact details and other news
• Other news in Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
• Email this news to a colleague
•
• RSS news feed for Alphamosaic
• RSS news feed for Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
• Electronicstalk Home Page

News Release from: Alphamosaic Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 September 2004

Big claims for mobile multimedia processor

Having scored a world-first with VideoCore, Alphamosaic has launched the VC02, which it bills as the world's most advanced mobile multimedia processor.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

News Release from: Alphamosaic
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 September 2004