PortalPlayer
Sign in to savePortalPlayer, Inc., founded in 1999, was a fabless semiconductor company that supplied system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handled semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries.
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Within Vinony's link graph, PortalPlayer is referenced by 114 other articles, and connects out to system on a chip, iPod Classic and Apple Inc..
Vinony files it under 1999 establishments in California, 2007 mergers and acquisitions and Companies based in Santa Clara, California.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- United States
- Headquarters
- California
- Followed by
- Nvidia
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- inception
- 1999-00-00
- product or material produced
- system on a chip
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- Products
- PortalPlayer 5002
- PortalPlayer 5003
- PortalPlayer 5020
- PortalPlayer 5021C-TDF
- PortalPlayer 5022
- PortalPlayer 5024
- PortalPlayer APX
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PortalPlayer, Inc., founded in 1999, was a fabless semiconductor company that supplied system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handled semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries.
It gained recognition as the company with which Apple contracted for development of the original iPod. The company went public with an IPO in November 2004 and traded on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol PLAY. Sales to Apple grew to 90% of the company's gross revenue, which ultimately hurt the company when Apple switched media processor chip vendors in its iPod lines.
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