Renesas Electronics Singapore and Indieon Technologies to offer high performance, low-cost STBs for Indian market

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Renesas Electronics Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corp., and Indieon Technologies announced the launch of a best-priced H.264/MPEG4 HD and SD digital set-top box (STB) developed based on Reneas’ EMMA3SE/P and EMMA3SL2/LP system-on-chips (SoCs) during Convergence India, to be held in New Delhi, India, from March 21-23, 2012.

Renesas’ EMMA3SE/P and EMMA3SL2/LP SoCs are highly-cost optimised, high performance MPEG4 high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) devices that address growing demands of HD and SD solutions to the digital consumer market in India.

“Indieon’s capability of delivering highly cost effective and quality products with strong software development skill makes it a perfect partner combination for Renesas,” says Sunil Dhar, GM, India Business, Renesas Electronics Singapore. “Localized on-time support for Operators, advance middleware solutions required for faster monetization of operators investments, rich graphics user interface (GUI) for enhanced TV viewing experience creates a very special market space for Indieon in a highly competitive and challenging market like India.”

"Renesas EMM3SEP SoC with 612MIPS@400MHz dual core processor is the most compact and highly-integrated, advanced security MPEG4 HD and SD processor in its class available today," said Adnan Dhuliawala, AGM Business Development at Indieon.

"The advanced features available in the platform have enabled us to differentiate and expand our products and services portfolio, while providing an enriching and quality experience to our users. Strong hardware optimization and designing skills, forging a direct relationship with semiconductor & manufacturing partners and leveraging on volume orders, we are able to bring down the cost of the product and offer consumers a very competitive and best-priced MPEG4 HD and SD products from feature-rich Zapper class to high-end HD STBs. Indirectly addressing the growing demands of HD consumers in India to avail a low cost HD STB from their service providers and competitive cost definitely give advantage to increase the quantity of HD boxes deployment in India, continuingly.”