LG Electronics Plans to Leverage on ARM Technology for Its Next Generation Digital HDTVs

In view of higher demand for greater capabilities in today’s digital TV market, LG Electronics, the famous digital TV manufacturer has just announced its plan to license ARM technology to be used on its next generation digital TV products.

The annoucement further disclosed that the Korean company will leverage on ARM11 MPCore multicore processor technology that provides high thermally efficient solution with multiple cores that able to deliver similar performance without clocking its core to maximum speed. At the same time, it utilizes either ARM Mali-200 or Mali-400 MP graphics processor that can scale up the hardware decode acceleration with up to full HD 1080p resolutions with pleasurable visual experiences in living room.

No availability plan yet, the collaboration effort will definitely able to promote a more powerful digital TV platform that being enhanced with full Web 2.0 capability to share digital media and internet content services directly streamed into digital home, without complicating the overall system design while able to accelerate TTM (Time-to-Market) strategy with rich eco-partners support.