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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 .
On January 5, 2007, Nvidia announced that it had completed the acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc. [57] In February 2008, Nvidia acquired Ageia, developer of PhysX, a physics engine and physics processing unit. Nvidia announced that it planned to integrate the PhysX technology into its future GPU products. [58] [59]
PLX Technology (acquired by Avago Technologies, now Broadcom Inc.) PMC-Sierra (from the former Pacific Microelectronics Centre and Sierra Semiconductor, the latter co-founded by ex-NatSemi employee) Panasonic (formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) PortalPlayer (acquired by Nvidia in 2007) Powerchip Semiconductor
Apple needed new SoCs for this planned expansion of the product range, so the S5L87 SoCs were created for the less power-hungry iPod family, and - after initial iPhone prototypes with a Freescale i.MX31 SoC, the S5L89 SoCs were adopted. The S5L87 SoCs were the successors of the PortalPlayer processors used in the iPod until then.
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In 2002, eSilicon became widely known as the supplier of a key Apple Inc. iPod ASIC through PortalPlayer. [8] 2004 revenues reached $91M largely driven by ASICs for the iPod. In 2006 Apple announced that they were changing their iPod ASIC strategy and eSilicon stopped supplying ASICs for the iPod. [9]
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