VM Labs

VM Labs was a semiconductor and platform company, founded in 1995 in Los Altos, Silicon Valley, California.

The company's technology and NUON brand was used in DVD players from Toshiba, Samsung and RCA, as well as the Streamaster IP set-top box from Motorola.

Notable embedded features included Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine (VLM) for music, real-time zoom, gamma-correction and smooth reverse shuttle.

[2] After critical funding collapsed shortly after September 11, 2001, VM Labs was sold to Genesis Microchip after a brief period in Chapter 11.

Feb 2002 – Genesis Microchip acquires VM Lab's assets and hires 50 remaining employees