Company Background

Overview

Chrontel, headquartered in San Jose, California, is a privately-held company with 150 employees worldwide. Incorporated in 1986, the company develops and markets mixed-signal integrated circuits for the PC and communication markets.

The Company is a leading provider of display interface IC’s for personal computers, portable media players and smartphones. Its products interface different computing platforms to standard TV, high-definition TV, LCD displays and PC monitors. The company is also developing new products for high-speed data interface and digital broadcast TV.
 

Industries / Customers

Chrontel addresses industry needs by offering state-of-the-art solutions and customer specific features in its products. Chrontel’s products are designed to complement graphics processors from Intel, AMD and Nvidia and system-on-a-chip (SOC) products from Broadcom, Freescale, Qualcomm, Marvell, Rockchip, RMI and Samsung. Chrontel offers its semiconductor products through a worldwide network of distributor and sales representatives. Its products have been used in notebook and desktop PCs from major OEMs like Acer, Asustek, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, SONY, Sharp, Panasonic and Toshiba. Its customers include major ODM like Celestica, Compal, Flextronics, Foxconn, Quanta, Gigabyte, USI and Wistron

 

  Our Strategy

 

Our objective is to be the leading supplier of high-quality visual interface semiconductor and software solutions for a broad range of computing and entertainment platforms.  To achieve this objective, we intend to:

  • Extend our Leadership in the TV-Out Market.

  • Offer a Broader Range of Interface Solutions.

  • Provide Unique Combination Products.

  • Expand into Horizontal Product Markets.

  • Leverage our Relationships.

 PC to TV Encoders  - The CH700X product family was designed to interface to VGA controllers and converts non-interlaced VGA output to a standard interlaced TV signal. The specifications and features implemented in this family were derived from months of partnership with major VGA suppliers. Our latest offering, the CH7009 integrates TV encoder and a single-link Digital Video Interface (DVI) with the following features:

  • 165 Mpixels/sec. DVI interface
  • 5-line deflickering filter for TVOut
  • Interpolating TV underscan/overscan scaler
  • Supports up to 800x600 resolution
  • 2D text enhancement filter
  • Contrast enhancement filter
  • All major PAL and NTSC standards
  • Macrovision V.7 anti-taping technology
  • Special low voltage pixel port interface with differential pixel clock
  • Software support from major VGA partners

DVI Transmitters - The CH7009 product family was designed to interface to display controller device that accepts a digital graphics input signal, and encodes and transmits data through a DVI Transmitter or TV Output. 

LVDS Transmitters - The CH7017 is a VGA to TV encoder with dual LVDS output for the graphics subsystem. Both TV-Out and LVDS-Out can operate simultaneously if the two 12-bit input ports are driven from different timing generators.

HDMI Transmitters - The CH7315 HDMI transmitter is a mixed-signal IC that transmits uncompressed, copy-protected video and audio data over a secure link from PCs to external televisions, HDTVs, DVD recorders and A/V receivers. HDMI, which has been adopted as an audio/video interface by more than 300 makers of consumer electronics (CE) and PC systems worldwide, has become a de-facto standard for connecting home entertainment products.

DisplayPort Receivers - The CH7507, a new DisplayPort™ Receiver IC with Integrated Timing Control (TCON) for use in notebook and netbook computer displays. DisplayPort is a new video interface standard endorsed by leading computer and component manufactures worldwide.

LVDS Format Converters - CH7036 converts LVDS inputs into HDMI, DVI or VGA video outputs for external displays and digital televisions. The CH7036 also has an additional output port that can retransmit graphic data in LVDS format to the netbook’s display while one of the external video outputs is enabled.

 

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