Marvell's ARMADA 1000 SoC won "Best Media Processor System-on-Chip" Award

Marvell's ARMADA 1000 HD Media Processor System-on-Chip, the 88DE3010 has received the "Secrets Best of 2009: Media Processor SoC" award from Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity.

Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, the premiere website for in-depth reviews of home theater consumer electronics systems, grants its annual "Best of" awards to products that demonstrate innovative, industry-changing technologies.

"It's not often we come across technology that demonstrates the ability to keep up with the pace of our growing digital lifestyles and demand to stay connected," said John E. Johnson, Editor-in-Chief, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. "With its versatility and power, the ARMADA 1000 Media Processor SoC enables manufacturers to develop compelling connected consumer electronics platforms offering high performance video processing and unmatched image quality."

The ARMADA 1000 HD Media Processor SoC enables consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers to deliver a connected home entertainment products, including Blu-ray players, Digital Media Adapters (DMAs), internet-connected digital TVs, and some types of streaming HD Set-Top-Boxes (STBs). Equipped with two high-performance Sheeva CPU cores running frequencies up to 1.2 GHz, dedicated hardware acceleration for multi-format video and audio decoding, Qdeo processing pipeline, and a comprehensive set of peripherals, the Marvell ARMADA 1000 HD Media Processor is designed to produce high performance slimmer and quieter CE products for the end user.

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