Vivace Readies for Boom, Mar 02, 2006

There’s an explosion coming to the portable media player and digital display spaces, and Vivace Semiconductor, a semiconductor startup focused on providing next-generation multi-function video processing chips, wants to be at the heart of it.

Linux got a leg up from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and the China Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which announced this morning plans to jointly establish a lab based in Beijing to develop complete evaluation systems for the open operating system (OS) and PowerPC core.