List of Chipset Vendors

This page lists links to pages about Chipset Vendors and the products they sell. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Tuners
• Demodulators
• Encoders
• Decoders
• Interface bridge chipsets (USB, PCI, PCIe, etc.)
• Multifunction chips

Active Chipset Vendors

These vendors are still producing TV-related chipsets under their original (or slightly modified) brand names.

Sortable Table of Active Chipset Vendors

Vendor	Headquarters	Tuners	Demodulators	Products
Alps	Japan	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
ATI/AMD	U.S.A./Canada
Atmel	U.S.A.
Auvitek International Ltd.	China/U.S.A.
B2C2 Inc.	U.S.A.
Broadcom	U.S.A.
Cirrus Logic	U.S.A.
Conexant	U.S.A.
Cypress	U.S.A.
DiBcom	France	✔ Yes	✔ Yes	produces DVB-T and DVB-H Demodulator chipsets for mobile usage
Digimove
Grundig	Germany
Infineon	Germany	✔ Yes
Intel	U.S.A.
ITE Tech. Inc.	Taiwan	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
LG Innotek	Korea	✔ Yes
LSI Logic Corporation	U.S.A.
Maxlinear	U.S.A.	✔ Yes		tuner ICs (MXL5003S,MXL5005S)
Microtune	U.S.A.	✔ Yes
NEC	Japan
NXP Semiconductors	Netherlands	✔ Yes
Panasonic	Japan
Samsung	South Korea	✔ Yes
STMicroelectronics	Geneva
Texas Instruments	U.S.A.
Trident Microsystems, Inc.	U.S.A.
ViXS	Canada
Xceive	U.S.A.	✔ Yes
Zoran	U.S.A.

Inactive/Rebranded Chipset Vendors

This section lists vendors that are no longer in operation, have been merged and operate under a different name or that have been rebranded. It also includes manufacturers that no longer make TV-related products.

Sortable Table of Inactive/Rebranded Chipset Vendors

Vendor	Headquarters	Tuners	Fate
Afatech	Taiwan		Merged with ITE Tech. Inc. in 2008
Brooktree Corporation	U.S.A.		Bought by Rockwell Semiconductors in 1996
E3C Technologies			Actual vendor is Tai-Hui; E3C is a branding name
EMPIA Technology	Taiwan		Merged with eGalax Inc. in December 2006 to become EETI
Hitachi Semiconductor	Japan	✔ Yes	Merged semiconductor activities with Mitsubishi to become Renesas Technology Corporation
Mirconas	Switzerland		Sold its consumer electronics division to Trident Microsystems, Inc. on 1st April, 2009.
Mitel	Canada
Oren			Acquired by Zoran Corporation in June 2005
Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands		Semiconductors spun off as NXP Semiconductors
SPaSE	Netherlands		Acquired by Microtune in October 2001
Temic		✔ Yes	Acquired by Vishay
Thomson	France
ULi Electronics			Acquired by Nvidia in 2006
Vision Group PLC	Scotland		Acquired by STMicroelectronics in 1999
VLSI Technology	U.S.A.		Acquired by NXP Semiconductors
VLSI Vision Ltd	Scotland		Renamed Vision Group PLC
Zarlink Semiconductor	Canada		Acquired by Intel in October 2005