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

A

 * Armadeus
 * affordable ARM boards
 * Armadeus started as a community project
 * Atmel - Wikipedia entry
 * Atmel makes AT91SAM 32-bit ARM-based Microcontrollers
 * AT91 Linux gateway

C

 * CALAO Systems sells tiny and cheap ARM based boards
 * Cirrus Logic - Wikipedia entry
 * Cirrus Logic makes ep93xx and ep73xx 32-bit ARM-based Microcontrollers

D

 * DigiKey sells the OMAP3 based beagleboard

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.

K
KwikByte sells full-featured ARM based boards: 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.

R

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

S

 * 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.

T

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