Should Nunchi be all that, it would be a no brainer for those who live to market dominate, to buy the entire company and lock up the technology.

Although, as Apple did with portalplayer and their unique interface, they locked up the technology for 18 months, as I recall. However, I do not believe portalplayer was a public company at the time, but not completely certain of that timing.

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PortalPlayer, founded in 1999, was a fabless semiconductor company that supplied system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handled semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries.

It gained recognition as the company with which Apple contracted for development of the original iPod.[1][2] The company went public with an IPO in November 2004 and traded on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol PLAY.[3] Sales to Apple grew to 90% of the company's gross revenue, which ultimately hurt the company when Apple switched media processor chip vendors in its iPod lines.[4]

On January 5, 2007, NVIDIA Corporation announced that it had acquired PortalPlayer, Inc. for about $357 million.[

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