drive. Supported Rio Receivers as clients. Rio Karma - Portable 20gb music player SONICblue went bankrupt in 2003, but the Rio division was purchased by D&M Holdings. The former Empeg employees still with Rio went on to produce the Rio Karma, the Rio Carbon, and several recent flash memory players. In 2005, D&M sold all of their audio player technology to SigmaTel, including all of the Empeg technology, and all of the patents, source code, and designs related to the Rio audio players. The former Empeg employees as well as other Rio technical employees are now employed by SigmaTel at their Austin, TX offices. References Notes External links Diamond Rio Buys Car MP3 Player Company - October 2000 MP3 Newswire article empeg home page unofficial empeg discussion boards Riocar.org - Home of the empeg FAQ, and other empeg information MP3Mobile - Hugo Fiennes's first in car MP3 player Hugo Fiennes home page - (rather out of date) Three Years in Embedded Linux: A Talk with Hugo Fiennes and Marc Merlin - About the empeg and Rio Car (from 2001) From Warwick University to Apple Inc California - Article about Hugo Fiennes's Career (from 2009) Digital audio players Linux-based devices