IPO Profile

PortalPlayer
3255 Scott Boulevard, Bldg. 1, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Tel: 408-521-7000
Web: www.portalplayer.com
Ticker: PLAY
Amount Raised: $106,250,000.00

Description:
PortalPlayer is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets comprehensive platform solutions, including a system-on-chip, firmware and software, for manufacturers of feature-rich, hard disk drive-based personal media players. Personal media players are battery-powered, portable devices that capture, store and play digital media such as audio, photos, and in the future, video. Our platform solutions are designed to enable personal media players to manage thousands of digital media files and allow our customers to build intuitive and customizable user interfaces. Our customers use our platforms to produce high-performance, feature-rich, differentiated personal media players in a cost-effective manner with fast time to market. Our key customers include leading manufacturers such as Inventec, who manufactures products for Apple Computer Inc. and other companies. In addition, our platforms sold to our customers are also included in products branded by Aiwa, Philips, Rio and Samsung. As of June 30, 2004, we had 134 employees worldwide.