Blaupunkt makes electronics for european cars, regular and hi end. Delco for General Motors. Bose makes available their systems also to the GM fleet. Alpine made them for the Dodge Viper. most radios are outsourced by another manufacturer. OEMs just stick their own name on them. starters, alternators and other electrical devices are made by Hitachi, Nippondenso and used by various auto manufacturers.
there isn't any reason why Eclipse can't do the same.
Excellent post, and obviously from one who knows what she`s talking about.
Hope you don`t mind me adding the words of two ECLIPSE executives as taken from e.Digital`s 1-7-02 official press release for the benefit of those who might not know ...
"e.Digital brings to the fore engineering talent specializing in developing and integrating unique advanced technologies," said Mark Kamino, Executive Vice President of Eclipse. "This collaboration highlights our ability to meet growing market demand for advanced, powerful automotive infotainment systems through partnering our Eclipse aftermarket and Fujitsu Ten OEM development teams with e.Digital, a state-of-the-art technology integrator and application developer."
Vannin Gale, Senior R&D/Marketing Manager, of Eclipse, added, "e.Digital is on the cutting edge of digital convergence and will be instrumental in providing complete system integration with interactive video, navigation, music, web e-mail, and infotainment capability for both OEM and aftermarket automotive products. This collaboration provides an immediate opportunity to deliver fully integrated digital data management solutions, as an option or upgrade to our already substantial installed customer base."
About all I know for sure regarding PortalPlayer is:
According to our agreement with PortalPlayer ...
Falk said, “As part of the agreement, PortalPlayer will refer pre-qualified customers to us for engineering services and product development using the PortalPlayer IP. This partnership opens the door for revenue producing opportunities, both from non-recurring engineering (NRE) fees and royalties as well as revenue sharing from PortalPlayer. It also provides us with another opportunity to incorporate new technologies into useful applications and attractive products for OEM customers, which in turn should generate additional OEM interest.”
From PortalPlayers 6-11-02 Press Release ...
"The company is now shipping technology platforms for hard-disk-equipped jukeboxes, and is ideally positioned to capture market share in this very hot product category. With the closing of a strong funding round in a still-difficult environment, we will solidify a leadership role in digital audio and accelerate development of next generation still and motion video-capable systems."
The PP5002 SuperIntegration™ System-On-Chip is a complete digital audio system featuring dual ARM7TDMI® microprocessors and twice the performance of the leading competitors.
Companies with related but not competing technologies have agreed to license our technologies and/or designs. To varying degrees, these partners promote and market our work with their own. They may, from time to time, refer customers to e.Digital. With these strategic partners, we may collaborate on projects where both partners could benefit financially. We have such marketing partnerships with Actel, Digitalway, Eastech, Maycom, Musical Electronics, Orient Power, and PortalPlayer.
FF from 8-14-03 webcast ...
"We are also announcing today that our website is currently being re-designed to reflect our increasing OEM business. The website re-design is scheduled to be completed and unveiled later this quarter."
It will be interesting to see if PortalPlayer is still listed as one of our "Partners" when the new website is up and running ... hopefully it won`t be too long now, and I do like the sound of "increasing OEM business" !!
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