PortalPlayer

It gained recognition as the company with which Apple contracted for development of the original iPod.

[1][2] The company went public with an IPO in November 2004 and traded on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol PLAY.

[3] Sales to Apple grew to 90% of the company's gross revenue, which ultimately hurt the company when Apple switched media processor chip vendors in its iPod lines.

Errata in memory controller leads to halved data cache performance but fast SRAM.

Used by the following devices: PP5022 with integrated Austria Microsystems AS3514 DAC and power management chip.