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NeoMagic Corporation
Company type	Manufacturing, e-Commerce
Traded as	OTC Pink: NMGC
Founded	1993
Headquarters	San Jose, California
Products	SOCs
Website	www.neomagic.com

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.

History edit

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]

MagicGraph edit

MagicGraph128XD
NM2160C

MagicMedia256AV
NM2200C-A

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

Adoption edit

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]

References edit

^ "Chip Maker NeoMagic Plans IPO". Los Angeles Times. 1997-01-22. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
^ ^a ^b Pitta, Julie (July 1, 1998). "Reboot NeoMagic". Forbes. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
^ Malik, O.P. (June 24, 1997). "NeoMagic on the rise". Forbes. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
^ Hachman, Mark (April 21, 2000). "NeoMagic to exit PC graphics mkt. for wireless". EETimes. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
^ Blickenstorfer, Conrad H. "Magic? No, NeoMagic". Pen Computing Magazine. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "NeoMagic hopes to weave new magic with RISC-based chips for handhelds". EETimes. July 10, 2001. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
^ "Smallest SoC suits multimedia handhelds". Electronic Products. 2002-10-01. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
^ "About Us". NeoMagic Corporation. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
^ "NeoMagic (R) Corporation Announces Acquisition of Advanced Microwave Inc". PR.com. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
^ "NeoMagic (R) Corporation Announces Acquisition of Advanced Microwave Inc". Yahoo Finance. 2023-11-16. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
^ "xorg / driver / xf86-video-neomagic". GitLab. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
^ "Neomagic driver source code released to Xfree86". www.redhat.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
^ "torvalds/linux". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-03-03.