BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$250.5K
- Private
- US
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Once upon a time, about 11years ago, the PC graphics market was quite different to its current self. Nobody could imagine then that NVIDIA would ever be able to buy 3dfx or rather the remains of that firm, that S3 Graphics would be nearly forgotten and ATI Technologies would be the leader Users had other names on their tongues, Diamond Multimedia. If you was around in the second half of the 1990-s, you probably recall something about this company? Diamond Multimedia took a neutral approach to making relationships with graphics chip makers. Without swearing its allegiance to any particular brand, this company was producing graphics adapters of Viper, Stealth and Monster series on chips from S3, 3dfx, NVIDIA and others. Moreover, in the remote 1995, Diamond supported the fresh and young NVIDIA by releasing a complex multimedia solution Diamond EDGE 3D (on the NV1 chip), which was both a graphics adapter and an audio card. Besides making graphics cards, the company was also into audio cards, modems and even mainboards. The red-white Diamond logo and Viper, Monster and Stealth brands are well known to users who wanted simply the best products available. Today Diamond Multimedia partners with ATI Technologies in its efforts to provide the absolute best quality in advanced graphics. In addition, Diamond continues to stay on top by offering the top technology in digital television, communications and sound hardware solutions to the home and business consumers.
Diamond Multimedia CEO
Bruce ZamanNumber of Employees 2
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers: 423690
Recent Events
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Diamond Introduces the ATI RadeonTM HD 5870 and 5850 Graphics Cards
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- 1999-11-01
Department of Justice v. Jeffrey Levy In a criminal prosecution suit filed by the Department of Justice, a 22-year-old University of Oregon senior, Jeffrey Levy, was convicted of Internet software pirating. Levy admitted to illegally posting thousands of copyrighted software programs, musical recordings, and digitally recorded movies on his...
KILL BW0191, CA-DIAMOND-MULTI and KILL BW0359, CQN-CA-DIAMOND-MULTI
- 1999-09-21
Please KILL BW0191, (CA-DIAMOND-MULTI) DIMD Diamond Multimedia Ships New Graphics Accelerators to Value-oriented PC Consumers and System Integrators, which ran on Business Wire at 9:24 ET. Also KILL the CORRECTION, BW0359, (CQN-CA-DIAMOND-MULTI) Diamond Multimedia Corrects and Replaces Previous Announcement, BW0191, CA-DIAMOND-MULTI, which ran on Business Wire at 13:21...
Diamond Multimedia, RIAA Settle Lawsuit Over Rio MP3 Player
- 1999-08-05
Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc and the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA have settled all pending litigation relating to Diamond's Rio portable MP3 player. The Rio plays music downloaded from the internet in the copyright-unprotected MP3 audio compression format. In 1998, RIAA sued Diamond on the grounds that Rio may...
Diamond Multimedia, RIAA and AARC Settle AHRA Lawsuit
- 1999-08-04
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 4, 1999-- Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:DIMD), the RIAA and AARC today announced the settlement of all pending litigation related to Diamond's Rio portable Internet music player. All three parties have dismissed their legal actions and announced the mutually satisfactory resolution of outstanding legal...
MTV Takes Stake in Diamond Multimedia's RioPort Business >By Rachel Chalmers
- 1999-07-21
It seems that not all the players in the traditional music publishing industry are afraid of piracy threat posed by MP3. MTV Networks Online, a unit of Viacom Inc, has struck an exclusive multi-year marketing deal with RioPort Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. RioPort's products...
MP3 "Space-Shifting" Ruled Fair Use Under Copyright Law
- 1999-07-12
A US Court of Appeals panel has ruled that the MP3 audio compression format "space-shifts" digital music files in the same way a video recorder "time-shifts" television shows. That ruling implies that copying legitimately obtained files with MP3 technology should be considered "fair use" under copyright law. The landmark decision...
Diamond multimedia's Rio PMP300 MP3player - Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc
- 1999-06-01
diamond multimedia's Rio PMP300 MP3 player synopsis: Prize of prizes, Diamond's Rio PMP300, a compact, controversial new system for encoding and playing audio tracks from the Internet and other sources in near Red Book-quality MP3, is a tiny wonder of modern industry. Downloading up to 37 minutes of MP3s...
The Digital Audio Market
- 1999-05-17
While the $12 billion recording industry is engaged in a mighty struggle with digital compression technologies, the portable digital music devices at the center of the controversy have become increasingly popular. There are several portable music devices on the market, but the best known is the Rio PMP300, a Walkman-like...
Lucent Teams With eDigital, TI on Secure Rival to MP3
- 1999-04-22
Lucent Technologies Inc is working with e.Digital Corp to build a new handheld device for playing music downloaded from the internet. The device, which e.Digital plans to manufacture, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder EPAC and a new class of digital signal processors DSPs...
Diamond Multimedia Launches iMac-like Rio MP3 Player
- 1999-04-13
By Rachel Chalmers The latest release of Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc's controversial Rio PMP300 player boasts a twist; it comes in a strangely familiar translucent blue plastic case. Besides matching your Apple iMac, the special-edition Rio boasts 64MB onboard flash memory and can store two hours'...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Bruce Zaman | Diamond Multimedia CEO |
| Mark Geller | Diamond Multimedia Senior Marketing Manager |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Greg Reyes | Chairman |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Diamond Multimedia CEO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Diamond Multimedia Senior Marketing Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Futuretrade | Current | |
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | BS in Mechanical Engineering | Former |
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