Aspex Semiconductor is a fabless chip company, providing System-on-Chip
HD video transcoding solutions for high volume consumer electronics applications.

Aspex introduces the Q family of chips, incorporating its 8th generation processing architecture, developed to offer studio-quality transcoding at consumer price points.

Digital video is finding its way onto an increasing variety of fixed and portable devices, from phones and iPods, PVRs and laptops, through to the latest Blu-Ray and HD-DVD recorders, with shipments of video processing chips forecast to reach 1.6 billion units by 2011.

As each video-enabled device has its own limitations on screen resolution, bitrate and video codec support, digital media streams frequently need to be converted, or "transcoded", to a different resolution, bitrate or codec, to ensure compatibility with the viewing device.

Aspex's Q family of chips delivers the highest flexibility to allow audio/video transcoding in a variety of devices and applications. Q supports all the latest codecs (including H.264/AVC and VC-1/WM9), at wide range of resolutions and bitrates.