Zhou Houjian, chairman of Hisense, announced on June 26, 2005 in Beijing that Hiview, the video frequency processing chip for colour TV, has been independently developed by Hisense successfully. The high-definition and high-resolution TV sets equipped with this homemade chip will be put into mass production in five Hisense production bases next month.

According to Ministry of Information Industry, this is the first chip that can be really industrialised in China's audio and video frequency fields. As veteran experts in electronics put it, the development and application of homemade TV video frequency processing chip will terminate the history that the core technique of producing colour TV in China has long been monopolized by foreign countries.

On June 24, the MII's experts' commission for the chip evaluation concluded that the efforts of Hisense on R&D of the key video frequency processing chip on its own initiative were of great significance in innovation. The key techniques embedded in the project has reached advanced domestic level. The chip's structural design and key arithmetic design, in particular, rank among the world's most advanced and are expected to generate remarkable economic and social benefits.

By People's Daily Online