Founded in 1993, SigmaTel, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Austin,Texas, designs, develops, and markets proprietary, analog intensive, mixed-signal ICs for a variety of digital multimedia products in the consumer electronics markets, including digital media players, multi-function peripheral products, digital photo frames and digital televisions. SigmaTel provides worldwide infrastructure and complete, system-level solutions that include highly-integrated ICs, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs, and applications support to add value to multinational companies. The Company's focus is on providing system-level solutions that enable customers to rapidly introduce and offer electronic products that are small, light-weight, power-efficient, reliable, and cost-effective.

SigmaTel has licensed a number of POWERVR IP Cores from Imagination for use in its future generation of application processors.

On February 4, 2008, Freescale Semiconductor announced that they have entered in to a definitive agreement for Freescale to acquire SigmaTel.

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