Fujitsu introduces HD H.264 transcoder chip

Bangalore

September 12th, 2007

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia announced the release of its new transcoder
chip that can compress full HD (1920 x 1080) MPEG-2 video data to H.264 data.
The new chip, MB86H52, is capable of compressing MPEG-2 video to less than half
the data size while maintaining the same video quality, Fujitsu said in a
statement. The new chip is ideal for use in recording equipment such as hard
drives, where recording time can be increased by more than 250 percent.

It also allows transmission of full HD video over narrow bandwidths. With the
predicted increase in home network appliances, there are also many opportunities
to embed this transcoder into equipment where the video data size needs to be
reduced, Fujitsu statement added.

MB86H52 provides a full HD H.264 CODEC (COde/DECode) for video encoding and
decoding, so that uncompressed video data can be compressed to the H.264 format,
while the device can also decompress video data from compressed or transcoded
H.264.