Company Profile
Fraunhofer IIS
Company Description
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, based in Erlangen, Germany, is home of the organization’s Audio and Multimedia division that has been working in audio coding for more than 20 years. Fraunhofer IIS is the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as technologies for the media world of tomorrow, including MPEG Surround and the Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine.
Throughout more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software to more than 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 5 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.
The Fraunhofer IIS organization is part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Munich, Germany. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest applied research organization and is partly funded by the German government. With nearly 20,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is composed of 60 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas.
Headquarters
Am Wolfsmantel 33
Erlangen, Bavaria 91058
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)9131 776 0
Fax: +49 (0)9131 776 399
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FraunhoferIIS
Fraunhofer USA Digital Media Technologies*
* Fraunhofer USA Digital Media Technologies, a division of Fraunhofer USA, Inc., promotes and supports the products of Fraunhofer IIS in the U.S.
100 Century Center Court, Suite 504
San Jose, CA 95112
United States
Phone: +1 408 573 9900
http://www.dmt.fraunhofer.org/
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