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Date: Dec 18, 06
ST and Ibiquity joins hands to see
traditional radio is not just an AM/FM audio receiver.
Ibiquity digital corp is the developer
of HD Radio; technology which allow AM/FM stations to broadcast
digital data along with audio. The digital data can be readable
news to weather update to any such small sized rolling text
announcements. The audio will be of CD-quality. It's already
there in air in US. Most of other countries are testing this
to implement. India will be a sizable market for this service.
ST Microelectronics makes semiconductor ICs for HD Radio receivers.
Being a semiconductor leader, ST teams up with Ibiquity to
develop System On Chip technologies for this market. ST has
licensed the necessary IP from Ibiquity to produce SOCs sometime
in end of 2007 or early 08.
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