Spun out from Philips Electronics in 2007, Silicon Hive specializes in paralell processing designs that can be built into the system-on-chip products at the heart of multimedia-friendly consumer electronics devices.

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Scientists are aiming to combine the odour sensors and the signal processing components onto one silicon chip.

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Better hope so if you had your heart set on the Anthem Statement D2v -- the flagship model is now shipping, complete with eight HDMI 1.3 inputs and a pair of outputs, top notch video processing courtesy the VXP silicon, and four DSP cores handling audio duties with support for high resolution audio formats and of course, Anthem's Room Correction (ARC) software.

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Storage is evolving faster than processing--doubling every 12 months versus silicon's every 18 months--and bandwidth is zooming fastest of all.

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Thanks to that piece of silicon, the new router has about 160 times the processing power of Cisco's last comparable product, its 7200 series.

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