Philips‘ move from chips to pharmaceuticals might be rather short lived after the company boasted a whopping 357 percent growth in the sale of MP3/MP4 players over the previous year. Unfortunately, we not too sure if this analysis in growth is limited to a specific region (namely Asia) or to its global operations. Regardless, considering the state of the world economy that is quite an achievement. Whoever said that the MP3 player as we know it is on the last of its days?

Imp3.net recently had a sit down with Mr. Liu Deren who is the general manager of international business at Tianpeng Sheng (a company that is not only in cahoots with Philips but also manufactures a number of Philips MP3/MP4 players).

Mr Deren has revealed that Philips are set to launch a number of HD-capable MP4 players come June carrying on the tradition of the SA075 and CAM. Unfortunately, no specific details were given, but we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for a stateside release…

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