Broadcom Creates HD-DVD/Blu-Ray System-on-a-Chip
 

Broadcom Corporation recently announced a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that combines both Blu-ray and HD DVD optical disc formats into a single-chip design.

According the press release, the Broadcom BCM7440 offers OEMs a single 761-ball BGA chip design, which integrates a multiple-core MIPS architecture, a multi-stream HD video decoder, dedicated graphics engines, DSP-based audio processors, a security processor, DDR2 interfaces, integrated video and audio outputs and a complete array of system and network connectivity interfaces.