Silicon TV tuners kick the CAN

摘要

As digital TV starts to deploy, there have been several announcements recently for silicon TV tuners that focus on terrestrial broadcast and cable set-top box applications, rather than on the more ethereal mobile TV that has been touted as the next killer application for handheld devices. As opposed to the formative on-again, off-again mobile TV promise, digital TV is a real market available now that IDC has projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of close to 24 percent, with unit volume measured in hundreds of millions per year.