In-Stat announced that the value of MPEG IC revenue will grow to $4.5 billion by 2014.

According to the statement, video decoding chips are becoming video decoding systems and standalone video encoding chips have given way to highly programmable system-on-chip (SoC) devices, which are now expanding to include the radio and communication components around them.

“In the last year leading product announcements from many semiconductor vendors feature a higher level of integration than that seen before,” says Michelle Abraham, Principal Analyst, In-Stat. “Newly announced set-top box chips include demodulators specific to their target market and region. For example, Broadcom announced the BCM7530, an HD MPEG-2 receiver with an integrated ISDB-T demodulator for the Japanese market.”

According to the statement, recent In-Stat research also found:

* Renesas (formerly NEC) led the market in Blu-ray MPEG SoCs in 2009.

* STMicro had 2009 market share above 60% share in the H.264 decoder IC market for terrestrial set top boxes, while Broadcom was the largest supplier of H.264 decoder ICs for the satellite set-top boxes.

* Zoran was the market share leader for MPEG-4 ICs for Mobile CE Applications.

* Among other leading participants in the MPEG segments include MediaTek, Sigma Designs, Trident Microsystems/NXP.

* Worldwide H.264 chip unit shipments will increase by 51% in 2010 over 2009.

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