11 Facts About SigmaTel

SigmaTel became Austin's largest IPO as of 2003 when it became publicly traded on NASDAQ.

SigmaTel was driven by a talented mix of electrical and computer engineers plus other professionals with semiconductor industry experience in Silicon Hills, the number two IC design region in the United States, after Silicon Valley.

SigmaTel was acquired by Freescale Semiconductor in 2008 and delisted from NASDAQ.

However, SigmaTel lost its last iPod socket in 2006 when it was not found in the next-generation iPod Shuffle.

SigmaTel was voted "Best Place to Work in Austin 2005" by the Austin Chronicle.

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In July 2005, SigmaTel acquired the rights to different software technologies sold by Digital Networks North America .

SigmaTel later introduced SGTV5900, which is anticipated to supplant the SGTV5800.

In mid-2007 SigmaTel introduced portable QVGA 320×240 portable video decoder, and support for higher resolutions using WMV and MPEG4 followed.

SigmaTel's equity traded as low as $100 million below book value.

SigmaTel settled all patent litigation and in 2007 entered into a cross-licensing agreement with the Zhuhai, China-based Actions Semiconductor Co.

SigmaTel provided SoC software to equipment manufacturers of portable audio and video player chips.