Chips&Media is the leader in the video hardware IP. We have long been recognized as a Video Codec IP specialist with firm market leadership. The recent introduction of new video IPs, including deep learning based computer vision, computational photography and image signal processing are transforming Chips&Media into a total Video IP provider. Chips&Media’s deep learning inference computer vision IP is designed to provide fully hardwired acceleration for computing intensive and application specific neural network algorithm developed in house. Our IP’s dedicated architecture reduces external memory bandwidth significantly, minimizing the power consumption. These characteristics make Chips&Media’s computer vision IP optimally suitable for automotive and surveillance applications such as embedded vision, with instantaneous processing of large visual data from multiple sources (i.e. cameras), and where high performance, power and area efficiencies are key.
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Silicon IP Provider Chips&Media Unveils New Multi Video Codec IP, WAVE6 Gen2+
Seoul, South Korea, Oct 23, 2024—Chips&Media (C&M), a global leader in video codec IP and application-specific NPU IP, today announced the WAVE6 Gen2+ series, a new multi-standard video codec hardware IP based on the next-generation video codec IP platform WAVE6. The WAVE6 Gen2+ series is a newly designed IP series that leverages the comprehensive architecture […]
Chips&Media Demonstration of WAVE6 and WAVE6 Gen2+, Its Powerful Video Codecs
Andy Lee, Vice President of US Marketing at Chips&Media, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Lee demonstrates his company’s latest video codec products and highlights its video codec roadmap. WAVE6 series, Chips&Media’s newest solution, delivers an AV1 encoder and additionally offers image quality […]
Chips&Media Demonstration of CMNP, Its Application-specific NPU for Image and Video
Andy Lee, Vice President of US Marketing at Chips&Media, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Lee demonstrates his company’s neural processor, CMNP, which enhances image quality. CMNP boasts two key applications: super resolution and noise reduction. When these two primary applications are combined […]
Chips&Media Announces 1 Billion Cumulative Shipments of Multimedia IP
Seoul, South Korea – August 09, 2021 – Chips & Media, a semiconductor hardware intellectual property (IP) provider targeting multimedia, today reported its remarkable record of 1 billion cumulative shipments containing its multimedia IPs. Chips&Media’s advanced IPs are embedded in various SoC applications, including automotive, AI servers, set-top boxes (STBs), surveillance cameras, digital TVs, intelligent cameras, […]
Chips&Media Expects a Supercycle in Semiconductors This Year
Seoul, South Korea – August 05, 2021 – Chips & Media, which focuses on video codecs, computer vision (super-resolution), and semiconductor hardware intellectual property (IP) reported the 2021 performance today. Chips&Media’s business activities, which earn 95% of its total earnings from exports, were restricted and limited in the first quarter of last year due to the […]
Silicon IP Provider Chips&Media Launches AV1 Video Encoder Hardware IP for 4K/UHD Video Resolutions and Beyond
Seoul, South Korea – June 17th, 2021 – Chips&Media, a worldwide leading hardware IP provider of video codec, computer vision, and image signal processing, today unveiled AV1 supported video encoder hardware IP WAVE627, from the newly released next-generation video codec IP platform, WAVE6. The WAVE6 series is a newly designed IP series that Chips&Media recently transformed […]
Chips&Media Making its Presence at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit as an Exhibitor
Seoul, South Korea – May 20th, 2021 – Chips&Media announced today the participation as an exhibitor at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit, the premier event for innovators adding computer vision and AI to products from May 25th to 28th. Chips&Media will introduce a more advanced and intellectual super-resolution with the generative adversarial network (GAN) training applied […]
High-performance and Optimized Video IP: Chips&Media at the Semiconductor360 Live 2021
SEOUL, March 15th, 2021 – Chips&Media, a leading video IP provider implementing the video processing algorithms, will be introducing video codec IPs at the Semiconductor360 Live 2021. The Semiconductor360 Live 2021 is the first international virtual event by semiconductor360.com, which will take place on March 16th, 2021, from 9:00 to 18:30 in Israel time and welcomes […]
Chips&Media Adds Extraordinary Features in Next-Generation Video Codec IP: Introducing the WAVE6 Series
SEOUL, Jan 14, 2021 – Chips&Media, a global leading semiconductor HW IP provider that specializes in video codec, image signal processing, and computer vision, today shared its rolled-out product list for the next-generation video codec IPs, the WAVE6 series. Chips&Media is supposedly planning to boost supported architecture and features by changing from frame pipeline to […]
Chips&Media Showcase at Samsung Foundry SAFE FORUM 2020 as an IP Partner
SEOUL, October 20th – Chips&Media, a leading silicon HW IP provider, announced that the company has joined as an IP partner of Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFETM). Chips&Media will be exhibiting at the SAFETM Forum 2020: Powering the Silicon Universe on October 28th, 2020. The SAFETM program aims to create a strong IP ECO system with partners, […]
Chips&Media to Exhibit at the 2020 Embedded Vision Summit
SEOUL, September 8th, 2020 – Chips&Media announced today its participation at the 2020 Embedded Vision Summit, the premier event for innovators adding computer vision and AI to products. This year’s Summit will be 100% online, where attendees will be able to watch presentations, ask questions of speakers, visit the virtual exhibit hall, see live demos of […]
Chips&Media Announces Making the First License Deal of Upscaling HW IP, c.WAVE120
SEOUL, September 03 – Chips&Media, the leading global provider of video and computer vision HW IPs, today announced making its first license deal of super-resolution HW IP, c.WAVE120, to one of the largest top-tier television and set-top box System-on-Chip (SoC) companies located in Taiwan. c.WAVE120, a deep learning-based super-resolution HW IP, that improves the enhancement […]
Chips&Media Publicizes Its Collaboration on SiFive’s OpenFive, a Custom Silicon Business Unit
SEOUL, August 27th – The leading semiconductor silicon HW IP provider, Chips&Media (C&M), today announced its collaboration with SiFive to expedite the speed of delivering silicon solutions by offering C&M’s proprietary IP cores through OpenFive, a self-contained and autonomous business unit program by SiFive. SiFive collaborates with the partners and customers to innovate on segment-specific […]
Chips&Media Now Reveals c.WAVE120 – New Generation of Super-Resolution HW IP
Deep learning-based neural network SR IP Capable of processing 8K 60fps output images at 550MHz High performance and low power consumption SEOUL, April 23rd, 2020 – Chips&Media, the leading global hardware IP provider, today announced the launch of c.WAVE120, which is a deep learning-based neural network, super-resolution IP that upscales the low-resolution data into high-resolution […]
Chips&Media Pioneering With the World’s First Real-time Multi-Standard Decoder, Including AV1, HW IP, WAVE517
The world’s first real-time multi-standard decoder, including AV1, HW IP Offers a wide range of video codecs standards for UHD resolution Support decoding capability of 4K60p content at 450MHz Provide high performance, low bandwidth, low power consumption, and small block size SEOUL, Feb 03, 2020 –The world-leading hardware IP provider, Chips&Media, today announced the pre-release […]
