New company shows off networking and imaging ICs

Socionext is a new system-on-chip company formed from the consolidation of the system LSI businesses of Fujitsu Limited and Panasonic Corporation. The company began operation on March 2^nd 2015.

Socionext has a focus in imaging and optical networking technologies and is headquartered in Yokohama. It has approximately 2,600 employees, worldwide. The company has available application specific standard products incorporating Cortex-A15, -A9 and –A7 CPUs and Mali-T624 GPU cores. Products include video distribution SoCs, graphics display controllers, Milbeaut image processors, H.264 transcoders, an interface bridge SoC for USB, Serial ATA, PCI Express, Ethernet and TS, LSIs for smart TV, and USB 3.0-SATA bridge ICs.

New devices include the MB86M31 chipset that compresses a 4Kp60 real time HEVC video using only a quarter rack unit. Chipset power requirements are only 15-20 W.  Reduced power and size are vital for next generation high-density video processing servers and portable devices like production cameras.

Socionext has a group of products for the professional consumer market. They include the 4K HEVC p60 10-bit decoder chip supporting HDMI 2.0 with HDCP 2.2 output port and a new HV1 chip for up-converting 2K content to high-quality 4K content. This chip requires no outside memory and achieves low latency with under 0.1 frame delay. It supports multiple output interfaces of HDMI 2.0 with HDCP 2.2, LVDS and V-by-One.

Also available is a next generation super high-speed Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11ad) module that can transfer up to 2.5 Gbits/s and can streaming 4K video. It is the world’s smallest module integrating an RF chip, baseband chip and antenna, with support for the USB 3.0.