OPTi Inc.

OPTi Inc. is an American technology company, founded in 1989 in Milpitas, California.

History

In the early 1990s, was OPTi Inc. one of the largest manufacturers of computer chipsets and audio processors for Intel's IA -32 architecture. In 1995 OPTi Inc. had an annual turnover of over 163 million U.S. dollars with a profit of over 11 million U.S. dollars.

With increasing dominance of Intel in the area chipsets tried OPTi Inc. in the late 1990s unsuccessful, the product range to the range of mobile computers align. In 2002, affiliated OPTi Inc. all production and marketing activities into a separate company OPTi Technologies Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto from.

The business model of OPTi Inc. is since from the licensing of patents to semiconductor manufacturers. So Intel and Nvidia closed in 1999 and 2006 license agreement with OPTi. Also, got OPTi Inc. by a Texas court in the year awarded 2009 19 million U.S. dollars for a patent infringement by Apple, AMD paid in 2010 as part of an out of court settlement in a patent infringement proceedings 32 million U.S. dollars to OPTi Inc. in late 2010 renounced Apple on an appeal in patent dispute with OPTi Inc.

Products

Audio processors

  • OPTi Media Chips

Chipsets

  • OPTi Viper
  • OPTi Python
Types of business entity IA-32 Palo Alto, California
622366
de