With the market for Portable Media Player (PMP) semiconductors essentially doubling to $6.4 billion in 2009, the stakes in the portable video-processing market are high.

Right now, Microsoft is very interested in gaining market share. In order to do that, they need to take advantage of the fact that their console is out before the PS3 launches.

The blue chips have a nice little advance going, but the semiconductors are really dragging things down.

The total amount of Sh82.369 billion indicates increased absorption capacity of our market.

On calendar year 2000 revenues, this would yield a $387.9 billion market cap, or $70 per share. This is right in line with current trading levels.

By the end of the year, manufacturers will launch dual-format players and holdout studios will announce support for both standards.