``The PortalPlayer Design Partners Program provides a fast track to new system designs by giving OEMs access to the engineering resources and complementary intellectual property of the qualified partner and PortalPlayer`s system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, firmware, system architecture, and PC-based digital media management applications. By using PortalPlayer`s platforms as a starting point, Design Partners can work with OEMs to quickly and cost-effectively build differentiation into next generation products.``

I`ve read that before....the highlight stands out now for some reason.

At the ARM processor level that is all they are ...``a starting point``.....they need developers to build embedded abstract for periphery(DSP...microcontroller...etc) up to them.

doni