Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACTS) is a fabless system-on-a-chip company with some 600 eployees founded in the year 2000 in Guangdong, China. Actions develops system on a chip (SoC) designs for digital audio players and photo viewers.
S1 MP3 players use chipsets designed by Actions.
In 2012, Actions Semiconductor produced the ATM7029 which is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A5-based SoC using Vivante Corporations GC1000 GPU. This SoC is used in the Ainol NOVO10 Hero II tablet.
At one point, Actions was sued by Sigmatel with Sigmatel prevailing. The findings were that Actions infringed upon Sigmatel by directly copying the ASICs designed by Sigmatel, once a world leader in the MP3 ASIC market. Sigmatel later was sold to Freescale Semiconductor.
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