STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) has introduced its first three DOCSIS 3.0 chips: the 12-channel STiD125 and 16-channel STiD127 for set-top box or headed gateway front-end, and the 16-channel STiD128 for cable modems and data gateways including headed gateway front-end. They're designed to enable data speeds of up to 800 Mbps downstream and 108 Mbps upstream. The company plans to release product development kits for the STiD125, STiD127 and STiD128 in Q1 2013.Features include:
- Up to 16x4 DOCSIS 3.0 data channels, up to 8 video
- Tuner interface, up to three Ethernet ports, up to two PCI-e (Wi-Fi DBC) ports, 200 Mbps digital video transport stream output bus
- PacketCable 1.5 and 2.0 support
- Multi-core ARM processor