PortalPlayer

Portal Player, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that develops single-chip systems (SoC ) for digital audio players, such as produced the iPod, for example.

Portal player designed semiconductor chips and their firmware, and sub-contracted to other companies. The semiconductor elements themselves are manufactured in foundries. On January 5, 2007, Nvidia announced that it has acquired Portal Player, Inc. for 357 million U.S. $ ..

  • 2.1 Portal Player 5002
  • 2.2 Portal Player 5003
  • 2.3 Portal Player 5020
  • 2.4 Portal Player 5021C - TDF
  • 2.5 Portal Player 5022
  • 2.6 Portal Player 5024

Collaboration with Apple

IPod

The central processor of the iPod is produced by Portal Player, which also designed the reference design for portable MP3 player, which according to Apple's entry to the iPod was. Portal Player was also involved in the development of the user interface of the iPod, the Pixo, the company has cooperated.

Products

Portal Player 5002

The portal Player 5002 chip used in the following devices are used:

  • IPod: 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation

Portal Player 5003

A -chip system 2 ARM7 CPU cores ( up to 90 MHz).

The portal Player 5003 chip used in the following devices are used:

  • Rio Karma

Portal Player 5020

A -chip system with two ARM CPU cores ( up to 80 MHz).

The portal Player 5020 chip used in the following devices are used:

  • IPod: 4th generation, iPod Photo and iPod Mini 1st generation
  • Tatung Elio M310 ( system/pp5020.mi4 contains the string " PP5020AF - 5:11 - TG01 - TG01 - - 11:40 11:40 -DT " and " Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Portal Player, Inc." )
  • Virgin Player 5GB
  • Mega Player 540, used the firmware system/pp5020.mi4 and contains the string " PP5020AF ...", sold in Germany as Medion MD81034 ( ALDI )
  • Iriver H10, all models ( including 5GB, 6GB, and 20GB)

Portal Player 5021C - TDF

The portal players 5021C - TDF chip comes in the following devices are used:

  • IPod: 1st generation iPod Nano

Portal Player 5022

The PP5022 is most likely software Compatible with the PP5020 The portal Player 5022 chip used in the following devices are used:

  • IPod: 2nd generation iPod Mini and iPod 5th generation (with video functionality ( 20GB and 60GB ) )

Portal Player 5024

Developed in 2005 Portal Player chip that is used on audio player is offered by Nvidia for sale.

The portal Player 5024 chip used in the following devices are used:

  • Sandisk Sansa e200 series
Types of business entity Fabless manufacturing Foundry model ARM architecture
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