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 its qualified partners, and PortalPlayer's system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, firmware, system architecture, and PC-based digital media management applications. Using PortalPlayer's platforms as a starting point, Design Partners work with OEMs to quickly and cost-effectively build differentiation into next generation products.

We were to offer 'complimentry IP' to help OEMS 'build differentation' ...

I hope I'm wrong ...

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