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Many people are familiar with audio and video codecs, but who knows how many other technologies are required to enable audio or video streaming? One such technology, largely unknown but nonetheless indispensable, is the Common Media Application Format (CMAF), developed by the leading standardization organization in the media world: MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). The MPEG Systems Group was honored with the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for the CMAF standardization in early December. Colleagues from Fraunhofer IIS made a significant contribution to the development within the MPEG Systems Working Group. The award winners accepted the prestigious golden trophy in New York on December 4.

On 17 November, Eric Fribourg-Blanc, Senior Programme Officer at the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU), visited Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. He was accompanied by Dirk Schumann, director of the APECS Pilot Line at the Research Fab Microelectronics Germany (FMD). The visit focused on the APECS Pilot Line, a central pillar of the EU Chips Act, which advances the development and transfer of novel chiplet technologies into industrial application.