C-Media Electronics, Inc. () is a
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
computer hardware company that manufactures processors for PC audio and
USB storage
The USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS) is a set of computing communications protocols, specifically a USB Device Class, defined by the USB Implementers Forum that makes a USB device accessible to a host computing devic ...
, and wireless audio devices.
Products
ISA audio
* CMI8328
* CMI8330
PCI audio
* CMI8338
* CMI8738-SX
* CMI8738-LX
* CMI8738-MX
* CMI8768
* CMI8768+ (
Dolby Digital Live
Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3, is the name for what has now become a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. Formerly named Dolby Stereo Digital until 1995, the audio compression is lossy ...
encoding)
* CMI8769
* CMI8770 (
Dolby Digital Live
Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3, is the name for what has now become a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. Formerly named Dolby Stereo Digital until 1995, the audio compression is lossy ...
&
DTS Connect
DTS, Inc. (originally Digital Theater Systems) is an American company that makes multichannel audio technologies for film and video. Based in Calabasas, California, the company introduced its DTS technology in 1993 as a competitor to Dolby La ...
encoding)
* Oxygen HD CMI8786
* Oxygen HD CMI8787
* Oxygen HD CMI8788 (
Dolby Digital Live
Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3, is the name for what has now become a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. Formerly named Dolby Stereo Digital until 1995, the audio compression is lossy ...
&
DTS Connect
DTS, Inc. (originally Digital Theater Systems) is an American company that makes multichannel audio technologies for film and video. Based in Calabasas, California, the company introduced its DTS technology in 1993 as a competitor to Dolby La ...
encoding)
AC'97
AC'97 (''Audio Codec '97;'' also MC'97 for ''Modem Codec '97'') is an audio codec standard developed by Intel Architecture Labs in 1997. The standard was used in motherboards, modems, and sound cards.
The specification covers two types of compo ...
audio
* CMI9738
* CMI9739
* CMI9761
* CMI9780
HD Audio
* CMI9880 (some of them have Dolby Digital Live certification)
* CM8888 (Oxygen Express-series) APPLICATIONS : PowerColor Devil HDX Sound Card
* CMI8828 (Oxygen Express-series) APPLICATIONS : HT OMEGA FENIX Sound Card, SUNWEIT ST15, SUNWEIT ST16
* CM8826 (Oxygen Express-series)
USB audio
* CM102A+/S+
* CM108AH
* CM108B
* CM118B
* CM119B/BN
* CM6206
* CM6206-LX
* CM6300
* CM6302
* CM6317A
* CM6327A
* CM6400
* CM6400X1
* CM6500B
* CM6502B
* CM6510B
* CM6523B
* CM6530N
* CM6531N
* CM6533(N)
* CM6533DH
* CM6533X1
* CM6535
* HS-100B
Wi-Sonic network audio
* CMWS-01: Uses CMI8769 for audio.
* WS-011
* WS-012
* WS-021
* WS-022
* WS-101
USB storage
* CM120 (Support for this product does not exist in C-Media.tw)
* CM220
** CM220F
** CM220L
** CM220S
* CM320
** CM320L
** CM320S
Sensaura licence expiry
C-Media's
Sensaura
Sensaura, a division of Creative Technology, was a company that provided 3D audio effect technology for the interactive entertainment industry.
Sensaura technology was shipped on more than 24 million game consoles and 150 million PCs (on soundcards ...
licence expired on 23 September 2008. While there is an article promoting new Xear3D EX with OpenAL support, replacement drivers are not available at the current time.
As of 26 September 2011, drivers are now available for some PCI chipset models.
* CMI 8738
* CMI 8768
* CMI 8768+
* CMI 8770
* CMI 8787
* CMI 8788
See also
*
List of sound card manufacturers
*
List of Taiwanese companies
*
AC'97
AC'97 (''Audio Codec '97;'' also MC'97 for ''Modem Codec '97'') is an audio codec standard developed by Intel Architecture Labs in 1997. The standard was used in motherboards, modems, and sound cards.
The specification covers two types of compo ...
*
Sound card
A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs. The term ''sound card'' is also applied to external audio ...
References
External links
Official forumDriversOpen Source Windows driver 8738/8768
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Manufacturing companies based in Taipei
Electronics companies established in 1991
Audio equipment manufacturers of Taiwan
Sound cards
Taiwanese brands
Taiwanese companies established in 1991