In recent years, the IPC+NVR solution combination has achieved remarkable results in the video surveillance market due to its advantages of cost economy and flexible deployment. With more and more NVR manufacturers joining in, the NVR market is unprecedentedly prosperous. Chips, as the core components of NVRs, play a decisive role in the market positioning, performance, and cost of NVRs. Therefore, various upstream chip manufacturers continue to innovate and develop high-definition chips with higher decoding capabilities and stronger processing capabilities. At present, the mainstream NVR chip solutions on the market mainly include the TI DM816X series.

Today, I will talk with you about the mainstream NVR chip solutions on the market: TI DM816X series. This article will briefly discuss the market share, strategic planning, product series, product advantages and disadvantages, etc.

As a veteran in the video surveillance industry, TI has performed well in both IPC applications and NVR applications.

The DM816X series is widely used by Hikvision and other manufacturers for its project-type NVR, network decoder and other products due to its excellent performance. DM 81XX is the most flexible and programmable DSP in the world at present, which can make many innovative products. This is the original intention of TI to design this series of products, and it is also the main reason why companies such as Hikvision choose this series of chips. Take the DM8165 chip as an example, the chip can be configured with up to 2GB of memory, and a single chip can meet the access and forwarding of 160M network IPC resources, and easily cope with 16-channel 1080P and 16-channel 1080P decoding. As a leading international chip manufacturer, TI‘s advantages and advantages in technology leadership are at a glance.

Since the launch of the DM816X series in 2010, the overall architecture has only been slightly optimized. After three years, its chip processing capability is still ahead of those of other manufacturers, which shows its forward-looking technology. Compared with other domestic chip manufacturers, TI is more focused and pays more attention to the research and development of core underlying technologies, which ensures TI‘s technological leadership. Then it is precisely because of TI‘s focus on technology that its investment in chip applications is insufficient, mainly in the following two points:

1. The support for upper-layer applications is not enough. NVR manufacturers often have to invest huge R&D resources, costs, and time to develop products. As a result, except for companies with scale advantages such as Hikvision, which can ensure continuous investment, other manufacturers rarely dare to try. , and domestic chip manufacturers are following up very quickly in applications. For example, the recently launched chips of HiSilicon have built-in cloud services, which can facilitate NVR manufacturers to quickly develop their own cloud applications;

2. Due to the leading and forward-looking technology, TI often has to invest higher costs in R&D and production, so the cost of TI chips is higher. In recent years, with the increasingly fierce competition in the NVR market, TI chips have become more expensive. High costs discourage more and more small businesses, so the market share gradually declines. At present, except for some manufacturers such as Hikvision, which are positioned in high-end or special fields (in addition to video surveillance, TI8168 can also be used in video conferencing, video telephony and other fields), few other manufacturers use TI‘s NVR chips.

The above is the introduction of the NVR mainstream chip solution for security monitoring: TI DM816X series. In the face of various NVR solutions on the market, video surveillance manufacturers choose TI DM816X series to maintain a certain advantage in the competition of NVR video surveillance products.