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		✔ Yes
Atmel	U.S.A.		✔ Yes
Auvitek International Ltd.	China/U.S.A.		✔ Yes
B2C2 Inc.	U.S.A.
Broadcom	U.S.A.
Cirrus Logic	U.S.A.
Commsonic	U.K.		✔ Yes
Conexant	U.S.A.		✔ Yes
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.		✔ Yes
ITE Tech. Inc.	Taiwan	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
LG Innotek	Korea	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
LSI Logic Corporation	U.S.A.	✔ Yes
Maxlinear	U.S.A.	✔ Yes		tuner ICs (MXL5003S,MXL5005S)
Microtune	U.S.A.	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
NationalChip	China	✘ No	✔ Yes
NEC	Japan
NXP Semiconductors	Netherlands	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
Panasonic	Japan
Quantek Inc.	Taiwan	✔ Yes	✘ No
Realtek	Taiwan	✘ No	✔ Yes
Samsung	South Korea	✔ Yes	✔ Yes
Siano	Israel	?	✔ Yes
STMicroelectronics	Geneva		✔ Yes
Shenzhen Tena Electronic	China	✔ Yes	✘ No
Texas Instruments	U.S.A.
Trident Microsystems	U.S.A.
ViXS	Canada
Xceive	U.S.A.	✔ Yes
Zoran	U.S.A.		✔ Yes

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	Demodulators	Fate
Afatech	Taiwan		✔ Yes	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
Micronas	Switzerland			Sold its consumer electronics division to Trident Microsystems on 1st April, 2009.
Mitel	Canada
Oren	Israel		✔ Yes	Acquired by Zoran Corporation in June 2005
Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	✔ Yes	✔ Yes	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
WISchip International	USA			Acquired by Micronas in October 2005
Zarlink Semiconductor	Canada			Acquired by Intel in October 2005