Entropic Communications is a leading fabless semiconductor company that
designs, develops and markets system solutions to enable connected home
entertainment. Our technology significantly changes the way
high-definition television quality video, or HD video, and other
multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought
into and delivered throughout the home.
Entropic is a pioneer of key technologies that enable connected home...
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Entropic Communications is a leading fabless semiconductor company that
designs, develops and markets system solutions to enable connected home
entertainment. Our technology significantly changes the way
high-definition television quality video, or HD video, and other
multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought
into and delivered throughout the home.
Entropic is a pioneer of key technologies that enable connected home
networking of digital entertainment over existing coax and is a founding member of MoCA, a global home networking consortium that sets
standards for the distribution of video and other multimedia
entertainment over coax.
Entropic products include:
- home networking chipsets based on the MoCA standard
- high-speed broadband access chipsets
- integrated circuits, or ICs, that simplify digital broadcast satellite, or DBS, services
- silicon TV tuner ICs.
These products allow telecommunication carriers, or telcos, cable
multiple service operators, or MSOs, and DBS service providers to
enhance and expand their service offerings and reduce deployment costs
in an increasingly competitive environment.
Entropic's home networking solutions capitalize on the worldwide conversion of
multimedia content from analog to digital. Multimedia content is now
easy to store on DVRs, gaming consoles, DVD recorders and PCs. The
ability to store this content on various devices has created "islands"
of digital entertainment within the home. Our products bridge these
islands and allow consumers to access their multimedia content
throughout the home. Today, we are the only high-volume supplier of
MoCA-compliant chipsets, which can be embedded in a wide variety of
consumer electronic devices. Service providers can employ our solutions
to offer consumer applications such as multi-room DVR, multi-room and
online gaming, PC to TV personal content sharing, and streaming of
downloaded movies stored on a PC to any TV.
Founded in January 2001, Entropic has assembled a team with vast
expertise in video communications, networking algorithms and protocols,
system-on-a-chip, or SoC, design, embedded software, mixed signal and
RF_IC design, and communications and RF systems. We use our
considerable experience with service provider-based deployments to
create solutions that address the complex requirements associated with
delivering multiple streams of HD video into and throughout the home,
while seamlessly coexisting with video, voice and data services using
the same coax infrastructure.
Entropic's investors include: Anthem Venture Partners; Cisco Systems;
CMEA Ventures; Comcast Interactive Capital; Conexant; Cox
Communications; The Dow Employees Pension Plan; EchoStar Satellite LLC;
Freescale Semiconductor; Focus Ventures; Granite Ventures; Intel
Capital; Liberty Associated Partners, LP; Mission Ventures; Motorola;
Mototech; Panasonic; Redpoint Ventures; Revolution Ventures; Saints
Capital Belvedere, LP; ST; Texas Instruments; Time Warner; Verizon and;
YAS Broadband Ventures.
