Startup aims to launch DVB-H chip by mid-2006

"Truespan Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup developing digital video broadcast (DVB) receiver technology for mobile phones and portable devices, said it expects to deliver a DVB-H chip set for the handheld market by mid-2006.
The next product will be a DVB-T compliant chip set, said Sanjai Kohli, founder and chief technology officer of the eight-month-old company (Long Beach, Calif.). 'Our solutions will have 50 percent lower power consumption, higher mobility performance and advanced channel processing than those of our competitors,' Kohli claimed. "


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Everyone and their mom these days has a DVB-H chip investment. Truespan is backed by Crosslink, Tallwood, and Storm - same vc that seeded Airespace and just raised a third fund of $220M.