Fabless semiconductor start-up Quartics, Inc. has unveiled plans to develop codec and transport agnostic media processors to wirelessly link PCs with any television or projection systems. The nascent company has readied a system-on-a-chip (SoC) and an entire suite of software and reference designs for OEMs and ODMs.

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“The digital market is growing multifold, and Quartics enters the market at a time when digital displays, user-generated and Internet-based content and broadband connectivity are all coming together," said Safi Qureshey, chairman and CEO of Quartics. "We're bridging the gap between users' media and content they access on their PCs and how they view it
on their televisions and other displays. With Quartics, what users view on their PCs, they now can view on their TV and do it wirelessly and cost effectively without compromising resolution quality."

"Streaming of IP-based entertainment to a variety of displays is one of the biggest opportunities, and challenges, in the digital home," said IdaRose Sylvester, senior analyst at IDC. "Companies ushering new capabilities that will significantly change the way media applications are utilized and integrated with other devices will be well positioned
to take advantage of this opportunity."

Quartics' technology is being incorporated in a number of products currently being planned for introduction in the coming months.