Private company
SigmaTel
Logo: SigmaTel, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
1993–2008 American system-on-a-chip company
SigmaTel, Inc., was an American system-on-a-chip (SoC), electronics and software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that designed AV media player/recorder SoCs, reference circuit boards, SoC software development kits built around a custom cooperative kernel and all SoC device drivers including USB mass storage and AV decoder DSP, media player/recorder apps, and controller chips for multifunction peripherals. SigmaTel became Austin's largest IPO as of 2003 when it became publicly traded on NASDAQ.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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SigmaTel, Inc., was an American system-on-a-chip (SoC), electronics and software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that designed AV media player/recorder SoCs, reference circuit boards, SoC software development kits built around a custom cooperative kernel and all SoC device drivers including USB mass storage and AV decoder DSP, media player/recorder apps, and controller chips for multifunction peripherals. SigmaTel became Austin's largest IPO as of 2003 when it became publicly traded on NASDAQ. The company was driven by a talented mix of electrical and computer engineers plus other prof2
Products and brands
- system on a chip
Listed on Wikidata.1
Timeline
- 1993Founded Founded1
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- 1WikidataSigmaTel on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaSigmaTel on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsSigmaTel logo by SigmaTel, Inc., Public domain
- 4Wikimedia CommonsSigmaTel photo by Darklanlan, CC BY 4.0