
Manufacturers released hundreds of Realtek 1073 players.

Key players from the Realtek 1073 era were the original Xtreamer, the Asus O!PlayHD, ACRyan PlayOn and the Mede8er MED500X. It also meant that producing these players was very easy for manufacturers, all they had to do was create the hardware and Realtek provided the software. This meant that they were all essentially similar in performance and interface. The 1073 players all built on a common SDK (firmware+OS) provided by Realtek. The DD and CC versions of the chipset both added full 7.1 HD-audio support to the chipset. HD Audio support in the 1xx3 improved through the chipset's life with several revisions. The three major 1xx3 chipset versions (1073, 1183, and 1283) all featured the same chip in terms of format support and performance, the only difference being the added ability to record AV sources in the 1283. Realtek produced three major versions of Realtek 1xx3 and several minor variations. (The main competitors were the Sigma Media Players.) Sold at a lower price than similar quality chipsets of Realtek's competitors. The increasing popularity of HD media players in 2009 led to the entry of Realtek into that market. Multimedia IC products include LCD Monitor Controllers, LCD TV Controllers and Digital Media Processors.


Those devices categorized as Realtek's computer peripheral IC products consist of the traditional AC'97 audio codecs, the High Definition Audio codecs, card reader controllers, clock generators and IEEE 1394 ICs. In particular, the RTL8139 series 10/100M Fast Ethernet controllers reached their height during the late 1990s, and continued to take up a significant, and eventually predominant share in the worldwide market in the following years.

Products Ĭommunication network IC products manufactured and marketed by Realtek include: network interface controllers (both traditional 10/100M and advanced gigabit Ethernet controllers), physical layer controllers ( PHYceivers), network switch controllers, gateway controllers, wireless LAN ICs, as well as ADSL router controllers. Realtek's Audio Solutions are based on Avance Logic technology, which can also be recognized by the prefixes "ALG" (Avance Logic Graphics) and "ALS" (Avance Logic Sound). Avance Logic was acquired by Realtek as early as 1995 and was an independent subsidiary until the end of 2002, when the company was integrated into Realtek. A 3D accelerator was developed in the mid-1990s, but it was not widely used. Avance Logic focused particularly on the development of low-cost, highly integrated electronic components for OEM manufacturers and was active in the areas of 2D graphics and audio. was a hardware manufacturer founded in 1991 in Fremont, California, and was most recently headquartered in San Jose, California.
