Board and Chip Vendors

This page has a list of the companies or organizations that make processors or boards for embedded products. If you are looking for companies who sell Linux software or Linux-related services, see the Vendors page. If you are looking for companies who sell end-user products based on Linux, see Companies. If you are looking for information about specific development boards, see Category:Development Boards

A

 * AMCC - Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
 * makes embedded PowerPC processors??
 * AMD
 * acquired ATI and now produces MIPS-based embedded processors (Xilleon series)
 * Also, used to make Geode chip
 * Analog Devices - Wikipedia entry
 * ADI designs and manufactures the Blackfin processor, which has been in the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.22 (May 2007).
 * There is a central open source site with a dedicated documentation wiki
 * Many more Blackfin manufactures can be found in that wiki as well
 * ARM - Wikipedia entry
 * ARM designs ARM architecture processors, and license the technology to companies that actually make the chips
 * Armadeus
 * affordable ARM boards
 * Armadeus started as a community project
 * Atmel - Wikipedia entry
 * Atmel makes AT91SAM 32-bit ARM-based Microcontrollers
 * AT91 Linux gateway

B

 * Bluetechnix makes tiny Blackfin modules to simplify custom board development
 * Broadcom - makes ARM chips for mobile phone market

C

 * CALAO Systems sells tiny and cheap ARM based boards
 * Cambridge Signal Processing makes tiny Blackfin modules to simplify custom board development
 * C Data Solutions makes tiny Blackfin modules to simplify custom board development
 * Cirrus Logic - Wikipedia entry
 * Cirrus Logic makes ep93xx and ep73xx 32-bit ARM-based Microcontrollers

D

 * DigiKey sells the OMAP3 based beagleboard

E

 * EFlag Tech does custom Blackfin platform designs (software and hardware)
 * eInfochips - The Solution People Open-RD based platform

F

 * Freescale Semiconductor - Wikipedia entry
 * Freescale makes the MX31 ARM11-based processor (and associated development boards), among others.
 * Freescale makes several PPC-based processors (and associated development boards) as well.

G

 * Gumstix sells various very small processor and add-on boards. Especially interesting for robotics related projects.

H

 * Hua Heng Tech does custom Blackfin platform designs (software and hardware)
 * HV Sistemas S.L. makes tiny Blackfin modules to simplify custom board development

I

 * IBM - Wikipedia entry
 * Makes embedded PowerPC processor chips, such as the PPC 440 line

K

 * KwikByte sells full-featured ARM based boards:
 * Such as the: KB9202, KB9260 and KBAT9261

M

 * Marvell sells a lot of ARM chips.
 * One of the most interesting ones is probably the Marvell 88W8618 which is used in the Freecom MusicPal.

N

 * NEC - makes ARM chips, used to make lots of MIPS chips

Q

 * Qualcomm - makes multicore ARM MSM products that support Linux
 * Their Snapdragon platform provides a 1GHz ARM core and advanced DSP.

R

 * Renesas Technology - Wikipedia entry
 * Renesas makes the SuperH, M32R, and H8 RISC CPUs, the RX CISC CPUs, and others.

S

 * Samsung - makes ARM processors
 * SiRF - Makes besides GPS products also ARM based SoC for location aware devices, like the ARM9 based Atlas III (codename) at4x0a and the ARM11 based SiRFPrima.
 * Sunplus is a company specialising in chips for multimedia and mobile applications. One of their interesting chips is the Sunplus SPMP3050A which is used in MP4 players.
 * Surveyor Corporation makes Blackfin based robot modules for academics, hobbyists, and professionals

T

 * Texas Instruments - Wikipedia entry
 * Texas Instruments makes the MSP430 MCUs, TMS320 C2000/C5000/C6000 DSPs, DaVinci/OMAP ARM+DSP-based processors, and others.