Samsung has solved the compatibility problems of the worldwide mobile TV industry by developing a chip (S3C4F31) that supports all the major mobile TV technologies - DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T (also 1-SEG, a Japanese digital standard for HDTV), and T-DMB, which widely used in Asia. This chip is a generation better than Sharp’s newly announced VA3B5EZ915 dual-mode TV tuner, which tunes in to both DVB-H and T-DMB. The S3C4F31 multi-standard mobile TV chip is packaged with a multi-band radio frequency tuner (S5M8602), which receives analog signals and also tunes in to UHF, VHF and L-band channels. Samsung’s new mobile TV and radio chipset will be massed produced in Q4 2007.

It looks like it’s advantage Korea in the multi-standard mobile TV chip market, with 130 million mobile TV units projected in 2011.

Update: But read about Sharp doubling production of mobile TV chips.

[via 3g]