| NeoMagic Corporation | |
| Type: | Manufacturing, e-Commerce |
| Foundation: | 1993 |
NeoMagic Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company and supplier of low-power audio and video integrated circuits for mobile use (MagicMedia).
In October 2012, NeoMagic entered into the e-commerce arena with the acquisition of its MercadoMagico.com division. MercadoMagico.com provides a multivendor platform where users buy and sell products from one another or buy electronic products directly.
NeoMagic Corporation was founded in 1993 in California.[1] Working with semiconductor vendor Mitsubishi Electric as a key foundry supplier, NeoMagic introduced its first graphics processors in 1995;[2] these were notable for being the first chips to combine a graphics logic and DRAM video memory into one chip.[3] As this was a more power-efficient method than ones previously used by graphics processors, most of the major laptop manufacturers of the time began to use NeoMagic graphics chips in their systems.[2] In 2000, NeoMagic left the laptop market completely,[4] and switched their focus to producing systems on a chip, or SOCs, for mobile phones and other handheld devices, like PDAs.[5] The firm's first handheld chips were unveiled in 2001, when NeoMagic introduced the MiMagic line.[6] The initial MiMagic chips were based on a 32-bit MIPS Technologies RISC processor core, and featured 4MB of embedded DRAM, as well as a 1024x768-capable graphics chip, and an AC'97-compatible sound processor.[6] Subsequent versions of the MiMagic chip family starting from the MiMagic 3 in 2002, were based on 32-bit ARM RISC processor cores.[7] In October 2012, NeoMagic acquired MercadoMagico.com.[8] In November 2023 they acquired Advanced Microwave Incorporated.[9] [10]
| Model | Chipset | |
|---|---|---|
| MagicGraph 128 | NM2070 | |
| MagicGraph 128V | NM2090 | |
| MagicGraph 128ZV | NM2093 | |
| MagicGraph 128ZV+ | NM2097 | |
| MagicGraph 128XD | NM2160 | |
| MagicMedia 256AV | NM2200 | |
| MagicMedia 256AV+ | NM2230 | |
| MagicMedia 256ZX | NM2360 | |
| MagicMedia 256XL+ | NM2380 |
These chips were used in a number of different laptop computers.[11] In 1998, Red Hat was able to release the source code of the XFree86 driver developed by Precision Insight Inc. which was previously distributed as proprietary software.[12] The NeoMagic driver included in the Linux kernel is partly based on the XFree86 one.[13]
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