PortalPlayer

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PortalPlayer (NASDAQ: PLAY) is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handles semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries. On Nov. 6, 2006 NVIDIA Corp. announced that it has signed an agreement to buy PortalPlayer, Inc. for about $357 million.

Contents 1 Products 1.1 PortalPlayer 5002 1.2 PortalPlayer 5003 1.3 PortalPlayer 5020 1.4 PortalPlayer 5022 1.5 PortalPlayer 5024 2 External links

[edit] Products

[edit] PortalPlayer 5002

PP5002 specifications

Used by the following devices:

• iPod: Generations 1, 2 and 3 [1] [2]

[edit] PortalPlayer 5003

PP5003 specifications

Used by the following devices:

• Rio Karma [3]

[edit] PortalPlayer 5020

PP5020 specifications

System-on-a-chip containing two ARM CPU cores, each running at 75 MHz.

Used by the following devices:

• iPod: Generation 4, iPod Photo, and first generation iPod Mini [4] [5]
• iriver H10 series [6] [7]
• Philips HDD100/120 (Unconfirmed, file-format and specs match YH-925 below)
• ROCdigital rocbox model 14003
• Samsung YH-925 [8] says "Platform: PP5020"
• Samsung YEPP YH-820MC (According to [9])
• Tatung Elio M310 (system/pp5020.mi4 contains the string "PP5020AF-05.11-TG01-11.40-TG01-11.40-DT" and "Copyright(c) 1999 - 2003 PortalPlayer, Inc.")
• Virgin player 5GB (According to [10])

[edit] PortalPlayer 5022

PP5022 specifications

Used by the following devices:

• iPod: Second generation iPod Mini and fifth generation iPod with video [11] [12]

[edit] PortalPlayer 5024

PP5024 specifications

The newest PortalPlayer audio chipset, which can be currently found on players.

Used by the following devices:

• Sandisk Sansa e200 series [13]

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• mi4 file format - the file format of the firmware that almost all (non-iPod) Portalplayer models use