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 compressed audio technology for more than 20 years. Fraunhofer IIS is universally credited with the development of the seminal mp3 coding algorithms and co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as MPEG Surround technology standards. 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 1 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 13,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is composed of 56 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas.
Our Partners
Fraunhofer IIS Audio & Multimedia cooperates with quite a number of institutions and companies.
Alliances and standardization bodies
Fraunhofer IIS Audio & Multiemdia is sustaining member of a number of alliances and standardization bodies.
Audio & Multimedia department cluster
The Audio & Multimedia Realtime Systems departments of Fraunhofer IIS have joined with the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau into an Audio & Multimedia (AMM) departments cluster.
The research of Fraunhofer IDMT focuses on the development of new media technologies for professional markets as well as for the home entertainment sector.
Fraunhofer Digital Media Technologies, Fraunhofer USA, Inc. - A strategic partner in the US
In March 2007, Fraunhofer USA, Inc. established Digital Media Technologies (DMT), which promotes and supports the products of Fraunhofer IIS in the United States.
After only 15 months in operation, DMT has become an important strategic partner for Fraunhofer IIS in the market development and introduction of new products.
Fraunhofer USA, Inc. is a non-profit research and development cooperation, with headquarters in Plymouth, Michigan. Fraunhofer USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
