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 January 5, 2007, NVIDIA Corporation announced that it had acquired PortalPlayer, Inc. for about $357 million.[1]. No further information is available on the current status of portalplayer and its employees.
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[edit] Products
[edit] PortalPlayer 5002
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[edit] PortalPlayer 5003
Used by the following devices:
[edit] PortalPlayer 5020
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]
- Philips HDD100/120 (Unconfirmed, file-format and specs match YH-925 below)
- 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 [6])
- MSI Megaplayer 540, has firmware system/pp5020.mi4 including "PP5020AF..." string, in Germany it has been sold as Medion MD81034 by ALDI
- iriver H10, all variations, including the 5GB, 6GB, and 20GB models
[edit] PortalPlayer 5021C-TDF
Used by the following devices:
[edit] PortalPlayer 5022
Used by the following devices:
[edit] PortalPlayer 5024
The newest PortalPlayer audio chipset, which can be currently found on players.
Used by the following devices:
- Sandisk Sansa e200 series [10]
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- mi4 file format - the file format of the firmware that almost all (non-iPod) Portalplayer models use
