Mitsubishi's New DLP Projector Powered by DPTV™3DPRO Ranked Number One High-End Projector in Japan

Sunnyvale, California. February 9, 2004:

"The LVP-D2010 projector recreates video images with a great sense of realism and fidelity due to its wide dynamic video contrast range and the capability to display video pictures with natural vividness. While watching DVD movies, the details of the image and the richness of color are truly astonishing, resulting in a very pleasurable viewing experience. In displaying dark video scenes, the LVP-D2010 is particularly impressive as compared to other branded DLP projectors because the LVP-D2010 has the excellent S/N performance ratio to precisely show low luminance areas," quoted the HiVi magazine projector reviews, 2003.

"We are really excited to learn that the Mitsubishi DLP projector powered by DPTV™3DPRO has received the number one ranking by the most respectable audio-video home theater magazine, HiVi, in Japan. This is the ultimate testament to DPTV™3DPRO's outstanding video enhancement prowess," said Dr. Jung-Herng Chang, president of Trident Technologies Inc. "The home-theater projector demands the best video images to be shown on the large screen. DPTV™3DPRO integrates an advanced 3-D digital comb color decoder, object-based intelligent digital noise reduction, and the DETI engine to produce the most crisp and natural-looking video images. Furthermore, Trident's proprietary DCRe™, (digital-cinema-reality-engine) technology delivers vivid cinema-realistic motion and still images for high-performance DLP projection engines. In our newest generation DPTV™SVP chip, which is pin-to-pin compatible with previous generation chips, we have pushed the quality level another step higher. Trident is fully committed to continue supplying our existing customers with easily upgradeable solutions to raise the quality standards of video images."

Trident's DPTV™3DPRO integrates an advanced third-generation 3-D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Trident's 3-D digital video decoder reads consecutive horizontal scanning lines within each video frame making corrections as it goes, to ensure maximum picture detail and resolution. Based on Trident's patented proprietary unified memory architecture (UMA), DPTV™3DPRO digital comb video decoder requires no extra frame buffers for performing 3D comb filtering. With film-mode recovery, DPTV™3DPRO correctly detects the frame rates of incoming video sources, and then dynamically restores the video source to the original film mode sequences in play back. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing feature of the DPTV™3DPRO refines the video display quality. The DPTV™3DPRO enables a SDTV signal to display in Picture-in-Picture mode, Picture-Out-Picture mode, and 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio modes.

Forward-Looking Information

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the company's expectations for the DPTV™ market, and designs for the DPTV™ product. The forward-looking statements above are subject to certain risks, and actual results could vary materially depending on a number of factors. These risks include, in particular, trends in the television industry, the results of Trident's sales and shipment activities to television manufacturers, Trident's ability to timely introduce new or follow-on products, Trident's success in implementing planned production, competitive pressures, including pricing and competitors' new product introductions. Additional factors that may affect the Company's business are described in detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Trident Microsystems, Inc.

Trident Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, designs, develops and markets digital media for the masses in the form of integrated circuits (ICs) for CRT TV, LCD TV, PDP TV, HDTV, and digital set-top boxes. Trident's products are sold to a network of OEMs, original design manufacturers and system integrators worldwide. For further information about Trident and its products, please consult the company's web site: http://www.tridentmicro.com .

NOTE: Trident is a registered trademark of Trident Microsystems; Inc. DPTV™ is a trademark of Trident Microsystems, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice.