{"id":81138,"date":"2013-04-26T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/broadcom-and-stmicro-tie-for-top-spot-in-set-top-box-ic-market\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:02:14","slug":"broadcom-and-stmicro-tie-for-top-spot-in-set-top-box-ic-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/broadcom-and-stmicro-tie-for-top-spot-in-set-top-box-ic-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom and STMicro Tie for Top Spot in Set-top Box IC Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] <b>Broadcom<\/b> and <b>STMicro<\/b> tied in unit shipments for the worldwide set-top box IC market in 2012, with both companies delivering between 85 and 86 million video SoCs for set-top boxes. In the third place, Ali Technology saw significant growth within free-to-air terrestrial boxes by Chinese OEMs and delivered an impressive 65 million SoCs.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe set-top box IC market has continued to be in a strange over-reporting situation for four years,\u201d ABI Research practice director Sam Rosen said in a statement.&nbsp;\u201cVendors public claims and internal counts of STB SoC shipments exceed the number of set-top box shipments by 5 to 25 percent, depending on year, for each of the last four years, even after accounting for the separate chips integrated in complex set-top boxes.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; High-end set-top boxes often include a video SoC, tuner\/demodulator, MoCA chipset, and networking chip, for example. The adjacent smart set-top box market, coupled with possible blurring between the STB and Digital TV markets, could explain some of this over reporting.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; These findings are part of ABI Research\u2019s Set-Top Box Database, which provides forecasts and trends in global connectivity and other emerging technologies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] Broadcom and STMicro tied in unit shipments for the worldwide set-top box IC market in 2012, with both companies delivering between 85 and 86 million video SoCs for set-top boxes. In the third place, Ali Technology saw significant growth within free-to-air terrestrial boxes by Chinese OEMs and delivered an impressive 65 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}