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New HD Radio Chips Should Push Portable, More Alternatives
Here we go, finally: EE Times reports that Samsung and SiPort will both offer new HD Radio chipsets to manufacturers of digital AM/FM receivers. These new chips will consume much less power than the chips used in current hardware, and that will, at long last, make it possible to embed digital reception into portable, battery-operated devices, as well as smaller equipment. SiPort's chipset comprises a single chip; Samsung's two.
I still have huge concerns about the AM radio reception problem, as that entire situation is still being evaluated--whether digital AM/FM from one station is interferring with others' analog signals during nighttime broadcasting--but the near-term availability of chips that will enable a next generation of products will at least move the industry further.
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