MediaTek, mainly known because it's chipset is used in Lite-On CD-RW drives and the reason that Lite-On drives are overclockable, is currently the leading company when it comes to DVD chipsets. The Taiwanese company is going strong thanks to their product that cuts the costs of a DVD player.
MediaTek recently released a single combined chip that will replace the two chips currently used inside DVD players. |
"MediaTek holds over a 50 percent share of the DVD-player chip market, including single-chip and servo chip solutions," said Benny Lo (¿c§é“«é), an analyst at the PrimAsia Securities Co. "Even before the single-chip release, it was still the dominant player in the sector."
DVD players include a servo chip that helps to read the data on a DVD disk, and an MPEG-2 chip that decompresses video data that has been stored on the disk.
The release of the new chip has boosted MediaTek's sales. The company reported yesterday that its third-quarter net income rose 40 percent on the second quarter, making a profit of NT$2.6 billion. This is 37 percent higher than the same period last year.
ALi Corp, formerly Acer Laboratories Inc, and the main competitor of MediaTek has already announced it has hard times to keep up with MediaTek. Read the entire story here. Discuss DVD related subjects in our DVD Hardware Forum.
Source: Taipeitimes.com
