Texas Instruments has announced the TMS320DM8168 DaVinci video SoC, which consolidates all of the capture, compression, display and control functionalities of an HD multi-channel system onto a single chip. Designed specifically for video security and video communications applications, this SoC offers extreme integration including a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 and a 1GHz TI C674x digital signal processor core. The new SoC offers higher video compression performance when compared to the company's previous generation 1GHz DM6467T, including increased multi-channel density and support for higher resolutions. The SoC provides the capabilities of a 16-channel DVR in a single video SoC.