ZiiLABS

ZiiLABS is a global technology company, producing a line of media-oriented application processors, reference platforms and enabling software in a series of platforms named ZMS. These are designed to create products that target a range of low-power consumer electronics and embedded devices, including Android-based phones and tablets.

History

ZiiLABS was originally founded in 1994 as 3Dlabs and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd in 2002. In January 2009 the company re-branded as ZiiLABS. This re-branding reflected 3Dlabs' focus on supplying low-power, media-rich application processors, hardware platforms and middleware, rather than just 3D GPUs as had previously been the case.

The company announced its first applications/media processor, the DMS-02 in 2005 and this has been followed by the ZMS-05, ZMS-08 and most recently the ZMS-20 and ZMS-40. The ZMS processors combine ZiiLABS’ core asset, the "Stemcell Computing Array" with ARM cores and integrated peripheral functions to create a system on a chip (SoC).