http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/ Engadget Comments for NVIDIA snapping up PortalPlayer for $357 mil. http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/Nov 6th 2006 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/
didn't AMD already buy nvidia? or was it the other way around?

This doesn't mean that NVIDIA might go into the mp3 market does it? Nah..]]>Nov 6th 2006 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/Nov 6th 2006 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/Nov 6th 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/"Introducing Preface, a new technology from PortalPlayer that works with Windows Vista to enable a secondary LCD screen called Windows SideShow that displays data and pictures and runs other useful mini-applications that cater to your lifestyle. Since Preface is so power-efficient, it can run for hundreds of hours without draining your notebook battery providing Always On access to your data and multimedia content."

high margins and a larger market than DAP's. Good buy for nVidia. $357 million is pretty close to the cash value of the company.]]>Nov 6th 2006 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/Nov 6th 2006 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/
I'd like to see a hybrid PMP that had a powerful nvidia chip and a portalplayer so you got lots of battery life for music and lots of power for decoding divx/mp4/wmv/etc...]]>Nov 6th 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/nvidia-snapping-up-portalplayer-for-357-mil/
Better for Intel to spend its cash on processor R&D. ]]>Nov 6th 2006 5:02PM